- This is Schubert’s Overture “im Italianische Stile” D.591. It was composed in November 1817. Schubert created a piano four-hands arrangement of it, his D.597.
- Schubert composed two Overtures “im Italianische Stile,” his D.590 & 591. Both were performed on March 1, 1818 at an inn called Zum römischen Kaiser. This was the first public concert performance of music by Schubert.
- These overtures display the influence of Rossini, whose music was massively popular in Vienna after his operas first appeared there in 1816.
- By 1821 Rossini’s music was so popular that the Viennese were referring to a “Rossini Rummel” (Rossini craze)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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