Allegretto in C minor, D.915

in C minor

Franz Schubert 1797–1828
C minor
Key
Allegretto
Tempo
Score
First page of Allegretto in C minor, D.915

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Themes & character
A farewell gift·Single short piece·Quiet melancholy·Composed 1827

At a glance

Key
C minor
Tempo / character
Allegretto

About the piece

A single short piece written in 1827 as a parting gift for Schubert's friend Ferdinand Walcher, who was leaving Vienna. The manuscript is inscribed accordingly. Its gentle, resigned character makes the occasion audible, and the piece has become a favourite of pianists looking for late Schubert on an intimate scale, its brevity concealing considerable harmonic subtlety.

The composer

Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
1797–1828

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 compositions, including over 600 Lieder and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. Among these are the songs "Gretchen am Spinnrade", "Erlkönig" and "Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); the Symphony No. 9 in C major ; the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor ; the String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus for solo piano; the last three piano sonatas; the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde; the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise; and the song collection Schwanengesang.

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