- Schubert composed his three Military Marches D.733 while he was tutoring the two daughters of Count Johann Karl Esterházy of Galanta at the Count’s summer estate in what is now Želiezovce in Slovakia (then it was still part of Hungary).
- Schubert originally composed this set for piano duet, probably for his students (the Count’s two daughters) to play.
- This set of marches became one of Schubert’s first enduringly successful compositions.
- Schubert composed a significant number of four-hand piano works, and his Grove’s article argues that Schubert was the first composer to elevate the medium of piano duet to the level of artistic complexity enjoyed by the string quartet or symphony, with works like his Grand Duo D.818.1
Sources
- Maurice Brown, J.E., Eric Sams, and Robert Winter, “Schubert, Franz,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 22, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000025109.
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43780