The Name You Trust for Classical Music

Read reviews, listen to the music, and purchase the COMPACT DISC Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D. 780 / 3 Piano Pieces, D. 946

Customer Service Toll Free 866.489.4152

Flash 9 required. Click to download.

Narrow your search
with our Music Browser

Classical Music

        Ballet
        Chamber Music
        Choral
        Concertos
        Film Music
        Folk Legends
        Instrumental
        Musicals
        Opera / Operetta
        Orchestral
        Vocal

Jazz

Jazz Contemporary
Jazz Icons

New Age

Wind Band

World

        Ballad
        Bhuddist
        Chinese Music
        Classical (World)
        Early Music (World)
        Folk
        Gamelan
        Gypsy
        Hindustani
        Jazz (World)
        Klezmer
        Sufi
        Vocal (World)
        World

Special Offers:

Free MP3 Downloads

A Special Offer for Valentines

Catalogs

Internship Opportunities

Celebrating Black History

Masters of American Music

53rd Annual Grammy� Award Winners

Clearance

Penguin Guide

200 Essential Recordings

Recently Released

Upcoming Releases

SACD

DVD

        Ballet DVD
        Classical Concert
        Classical Documentary
        Dance Documentary
        Opera DVD

Audio Books

        Anthologies / Collections
        Arts
        Biographies
        Children's Classics
        Classic Fiction
        Great Epics and Tales
        History
        Junior Classic Fiction
        Junior History
        Literature
        Music Biographies
        Music Education
        Non-Fiction
        Philosophy
        Plays - Others
        Plays - Shakespeare
        Poetry
        Religion
        Samplers
        Sports
        Wine Guide

NaxosDirect Podcasts

Video Librarian Reviews

Labels

Naxos Label

        Naxos American Classics
        Naxos Best Of...
        Naxos Box Sets
        Naxos Cinema Classics
        Naxos Classics
        Naxos DVD
        Naxos DVD-Audio
        Naxos International
        Naxos Jazz
        Naxos Limited Edition
        Naxos Milken Archives
        Naxos Night Music
        Naxos Opera
        Naxos Orchestral
        Naxos Special Release
        Naxos Wind Band Classics
        Naxos World

Composers

Conductors

Ensembles

Orchestras

Choirs

Artists

Instruments

Producers

Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D. 780 / 3 Piano Pieces, D. 946

Home

Classical Music

Instrumental

Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D. 780 / 3 Piano Pieces, D. 946

View large image

$9.99 (COMPACT DISC)

In Stock - Usually ships within 24 hours.

Link to this COMPACT DISC Link to this page

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) 6 Moments musicaux, Opus 94, D, 780 Allegretto in C minor, D. 915 3 Klavierstucke, D, 946 Franz Schubert was born in Vienna in...

Read more about this recording

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

6 Moments musicaux, Opus 94, D, 780

Allegretto in C minor, D. 915

3 Klavierstucke, D, 946

Franz Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797, the son of a schoolmaster who had followed his brother to the Imperial capital from his native Moravia. Descended on his mother's side from Silesian stock, Schubert was as Viennese in language and outlook as any other inhabitant of a city, the cultural strength of which lay in its very mixture of races.

Schubert's family showed considerable musical enthusiasm, his father evidently the least proficient member of the family string quartet, in which he played the cello. Schubert himself, like Mozart before him, played the violin and viola, and was a proficient enough keyboard-player, if no great virtuoso. His musical and general education was at the Staatskonvikt, an institution he attended as a member of the choir of the Imperial Chapel directed by the Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri, his composition teacher. In 1812, when his voice broke, he left the choir and rather than continue an education that would have distracted him from music he chose in 1814 to embark on a course of teacher training, joining his father in the family business as an assistant teacher in the following year.

During these early years Schubert had shown considerable musical precocity. His first surviving compositions date from 1810 and by the following year he had embarked on the writing of the first of the many song settings in which his particular genius in melodic invention is shown. 1811 brought his first attempt at opera, a medium in which he never achieved any particular distinction, and his ambitious attempts at others forms of vocal and instrumental music. The following years brought a flood of music of all kinds so that by the end of the year in which he completed his formal education he had already written, among other things three symphonies, a dozen or so string quartets and some fifty songs.

As a school-teacher Schubert showed little ability or interest and in 1816 he gave up the attempt, living thereafter intermittently with various friends, busy as a composer and as an important figure in his own circle, but never enjoying any official position as a musician. His last years were darkened by illness of syphilitic origin that first made itself known in 1823, its predictable and fatal progress awakening immediate fears for his life. He died in 1828, the year of the first public concert dedicated to his music, at a time when publishers were showing an increased interest in his work.

Schubert's six Momens musicals, which might more correctly have appeared as Moments musicaux, were published in Vienna in 1828 by Leidesdorf, with whom the composer had come to an agreement in 1822 to provide songs for two years in return for a regular payment of 480 florins. The sixth of the later Musical Moments was published in 1824 in a Christmas album under the title Les Plaintes d'un Troubadour. Like the Impromptus

these short piano pieces seem to owe a debt to the Bohemian composer Tomasek and his pupil Jan Vorlsek. The third of the set is in Rosamunde

vein and the fourth in Baroque style. The Allegretto in C minor belongs in form to the same group of pieces and was given by the composer to his friend Ferdinand Watcher, an official in the War Ministry, on his departure for Venice, the base of the Imperial fleet, in May 1827. It forms the composer's brief adieu to his friend, hinting at his soon return.

The three Piano Pieces of May 1828 were to be published only forty years later. The first, described by Alfred Einstein as in the French manner, includes an original additional Andantino A flat section. The last, in the tripartite form so often used for music of this kind, Einstein sees as Hungarian, with the second of the pieces, more elaborate in structure, based on an Italian cavatina, its contrasting episodes moving into ever remoter keys. The pieces, in spite of Einstein's contrary view, do not seem to have been conceived as a single work but were published in this form by Brahms in 1868.

Jeno Jando

Jeno Jando was born at Pecs, in south Hungary, in 1952. He started to learn the piano when he was seven and later studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music under Katalin Nemes and Pal Kadosa, becoming assistant to the latter on his graduation in 1974. Jand6 has won a. number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and a first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. In addition to his many appearances in Hungary, he has played widely abroad in Eastern and Western Europe, in Canada and in Japan.

He is currently engaged in a project to record all Mozart's piano concertos for Naxos. Other recordings for the Naxos label include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov's Second Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody and Beethoven's complete piano sonatas.

Disc 1

6 Moments musicaux, Op. 94, D. 780

(more info)

Composed by: Franz Schubert Alain Lefevre
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Ethel Leginska,
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Paul Badura-Skoda,
Martin Helmchen,
Peter Nagy, piano
Tzimon Barto, piano
Anton Kuerti, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 1952

Moderato, C major - 5:01
Andantino, A flat major - 5:57
Allegro moderato, F minor - 1:46
Moderato, C sharp minor - 5:43
Allegro vivace, F minor - 2:04
Allegretto, A flat major - 6:14

Allegretto in C minor, D. 915

(more info)

Composed by: Franz Schubert
Andrew Rangell, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Paul Badura-Skoda,
William Corbett-Jones, piano

Allegretto in C minor - 4:45

3 Klavierstucke, D. 946

(more info)

Composed by: Franz Schubert
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
Ludwig Semerjian, piano
Jeno Jando, piano

No. 1 in E flat minor: Allegro assai - Andante - Tempo I - 9:17
No. 2 in E flat major: Allegretto - 12:51
No. 3 in C major: Allegro - 4:18

Reviews

Be the first to review this title

FREE SHIPPING on orders
of 5 items or more!

Earn Naxos Rewards Points by opening an account and buying your favorite music today! Create your account here.

See all of our great site features here.

Flash 9 required. Click to download.

Composer(s):
Schubert, Franz

Artist(s):
Jando, Jeno

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 730099525923
Item Number: 8550259
Release Date: Mar 15, 1990