- These come from a set of eight dances for piano that Schubert composed around 1822. The set was published in 1825 as his Op.49.1
- Brian Newbould’s biography of Schubert states that “most of these dances [Schubert’s dances for piano] are written-down distillations of music improvised at private parties.”2
- Newbould also states that lots of contemporary documentation shows that Schubert’s dances for piano were definitely used for actual dancing.3
Sources
- Maurice Brown, J.E., Eric Sams, and Robert Winter, “Schubert, Franz,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed January 23, 2020, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000025109.
- Brian Newbould, Schubert: The Music and the Man(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 340.
- Ibid.
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