Romantic “Drawing-Room Music”
Schubert’s Impromptus, two collections of lyrical piano music written in the last few years of the composer’s life, are among the best loved and most widely played piano works. But even if their technical challenges are more modest than those of the great Schubert piano sonatas, they are still numbered among the masterpieces of Romantic piano music. With the wealth of melodic inventions and expressive nuances that characterize Schubert, each Impromptu reveals a musical world of its own.
Schubert’s Impromptus, two collections of lyrical piano music written in the last few years of the composer’s life, are among the best loved and most widely played piano works. But even if their technical challenges are more modest than those of the great Schubert piano sonatas, they are still numbered among the masterpieces of Romantic piano music. With the wealth of melodic inventions and expressive nuances that characterize Schubert, each Impromptu reveals a musical world of its own.