Classical Composer: | Schumann, Robert |
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Work: | Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 |
Year Composed: | 1840 |
Instrumentation: | pf |
Publishers: |
Universal Edition Breitkopf & Härtel |
Duration: | 00:16:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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By the year 1839, Schumann wrote Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Carnival in Vienna). The work was described in a subtitle as Phantasiebilder (fantasy-pictures) for the piano, dedicated to Schumann's Belgian friend Simonin de Sire and is in five short movements. The first four of these were written in Vienna at carnival time and the fifth after his return home to Leipzig, and the composer later described the whole work as a grand romantic sonata. The opening Allegro is in fact in rondo form and, like the rest of the work, very much in the spirit of the earlier Carnaval, although this first movement is of much greater length. The second movement G minor Romanze serves as a gentle interlude leading to the Scherzino of the third, restoring the original key of B flat major. The energetic E flat minor Intermezzo, with its characteristic figuration, is capped by a vigorous final sonata-form movement, with a particularly winning second subject.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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