Six moments musicaux (Schubert)

Six moments musicaux, D. 780 (Op. 94) is a collection of six short pieces for solo piano composed by Franz Schubert. The movements are as follows:

I. Moderato in C major

II. Andantino in A-flat major

III. Allegro moderato in F minor

IV. Moderato in C-sharp minor

V. Allegro vivace in F minor

VI. Allegretto in A-flat major

All Performed by Bernd Krueger

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Moderato in C major
Andantino in A♭ major
Allegro moderato in F minor (ends in F major)
Moderato in C♯ minor
Allegro vivace in F minor (ends in F major)
Allegretto in A♭ major (ends on an open octave in an A♭ minor context)

Along with the Impromptus, they are among the most frequently played of all Schubert's piano music, and have been recorded many times. No. 3 in F minor has been arranged by Leopold Godowsky and others.

It has been said that Schubert was deeply influenced in writing these pieces by the Impromptus, Op. 7, of Jan Václav Voříšek (1822).^[1]^[2]

They were published by Leidesdorf in Vienna in 1828, under the title "Six Momens [sic] musicals [sic]". The standard French forms are now usually used – moments (instead of momens), and musicaux (instead of musicals). The sixth number was published in 1824 in a Christmas album under the title Les plaintes d'un troubadour.^[2]

References

^ Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed. 1954
^ ^a ^b Naxos Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Moments musicaux: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Performance of the Six moments musicaux by Charlie Albright from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

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[1] Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed. 1954

[naxos-2] Naxos Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine

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