SCHUBERT: Wanderer Fantasy Opus 15
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Franz Schubert:
Fantasia Opus 15 in C major (D 760)
"Wanderer Fantasy"
Fantasia Opus 15 in C major (D 760)
"Wanderer Fantasy"
Art Movie by Josef-Stefan Kindler
after and with Franz Schubert's
Fantasia for Piano Opus 15
"Wanderer Fantasy",
performed live by Franz Vorraber
at Bad Homburg Castle (Germany)
on a C. Bechstein Concert Grand Piano D 280
1 Chapter · Runtime: c. 27 Minutes
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he "Wanderer Fantasie", as it is known, was written almost five years earlier, between 1822 and 1823. The words of a line from the Schubertlied, "Der Wanderer", set the theme for the second movement, which, in turn, forms the central sequence of variations that make up the piece. This is a daring, orchestral-like work that is unique even in our times. It consists of four movements built around one rhythmic motif, with each movement flowing into the next without a break, thus turning the four into one whole entity. Although the title of "Wanderer Fantasie" was not Schubert's, the reference to the lied "Der Wanderer" is obvious because of the central theme of the piece. The dominant rhythm pattern also appears in other works by Schubert. Wandering ceaselessly, without ever stopping - this continuous flow ad infinitum pulls everything along with it. It is the wandering of our lives, the relentless flow of time - time, which, as a symbol in the arts, is perhaps best represented by music. This wandering may well be interrupted by dreams, as in the 2nd movement, but it remains an ungovernable force that cannot be escaped. At the end of the third movement, Schubert composed a tremendous crescendo of sound that was probably too much for the instruments of that time to cope with and which merges into a fugued fourth movement in octaves, where sound unfolds in all possible registers. The notes are distributed up and down the entire keyboard, and there are chord tremoli and octave runs galore, all of culminate in an untamed flood of sound in C major.
Franz Vorraber in November 2007
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