10/7/2023 0 Comments Impromptu no 3 in g flat major![]() ![]() In fact, the notes lie much more comfortably under the fingers and hand in G-flat, and this key lends a gorgeous, resonant warmth to the music. The G-flat Major Impromptu was originally published in G Major, the editor believing the music to be too difficult to play in G-flat, a “black note key”. ![]() Composed in 1827, the year before Schubert’s death, around the same time as he wrote his great, searing song-cycle Winterreise, the third and fourth impromptus were not published until 1857. The G-flat Impromptu, the third of the D899 set, is perhaps the best known and most popular of all Schubert’s Impromptus. My original Editions Peters score was now too dog-eared to work from productively and so I replaced it with a smart Henle edition. When I returned to the piano as an adult, after some 20 years away from the instrument, it was to the Impromptus that I turned first. Nevertheless, I attempted to play them, and was fortunate that my then piano teacher did not discourage me but helped me find my way through this beautiful and varied music. I was a young piano student at the time, about 11 or 12, and the pieces were really too advanced for me. ![]() Schubert’s first set of Impromptus (D899) are amongst my most favourite pieces of piano music, ever since my mother, who admired the pianist Alfred Brendel, bought me the score of the Impromptus and Moments Musicaux after hearing Brendel perform them in concert. ![]()
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