SCHUBERT VARIATIONS ON TROCKNE BLUMEN IN E MINOR OP POSTH. 160 D 802
Revised Edition for Flute and Piano
Publisher: Henle
Format: Softcover
Composer: Franz Schubert
Editor: Klaus Schilde, Wolf-Dieter Seiffert
Schubert: Appendix: 1. Version of Variation V • Schubert: Variations on 'Trockne Blumen' e minor op. post. 160 D 802
Just as in his Trout Quintet (D 667), Wanderer Fantasy (D 760), and string quartet Death and the Maiden (D 810), in the flute variations on Trockne Blumen (D 820) Franz Schubert employs one of his songs as the thematic basis of an instrumental composition. Trockne Blumen (Dried Flowers) is the eighteenth song from the cycle Die schone Mullerin (D 795), composed in autumn 1823. In January 1824, before publication of all of the Muller songs that summer, the Theme and Variations in E minor for flute and piano were written, prefaced by a weighty introductory section. The wor remains Schubert's single and singular virtuoso composition for flautists: tremendously difficult for the flute to play, and incidentally, sometimes very tricky for the piano to accompany. Schubert's much-reworked autograph manuscript is the sole authoritative source for our Urtext, as it demonstrably served as the engraver's copy for the posthumously published first edition. One of the variations he crossed out entirely - the Henle Urtext edition reproduces it, more for informational purposes than for performance, in the appendix.
Item #: 051480474
UPC: 884088176679
Size: 12.25" x 9.25"
Pages: 52
Stock #: HL51480474