Night Fantasies
Full title | Night Fantasies for piano op. 13 / Nachtphantasien für Klavier op. 13 | |
Date composed | 1911 | |
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Sehr langsam Heftig Langsam, innig Unruhig, heftig drängend Zart bewegt Composed 1911. Weigl subsequently arranged the work for piano four hands (or two pianos); see also Three Night Fantasies for piano, Weigl's arrangement of movements 1, 2, and 5; and Three Night Fantasies for two pianos. Dedication: Richard Byk freundschaftlich zugeeignet. Performance duration: ca. 22 min. |
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Manuscript sources | ÖNB Mus.Hs.36841, holograph score. See also NYPL JOB 73-147, two holograph scores titled Nachtphantasien für Klavier zu zwei Händen, one dated: September 1911; the other: Weihnachten 1911. | |
Publication details | F.E.C. Leuckart, 1922: F.E.C.L. 8154. | |
Availabiity | Performance score available from KWF. | |
Recordings | Joseph Banowetz, piano (CD: Naxos, The Complete Piano Works of Karl Weigl, 2012); Dwight Peltzer, The Piano Music of Dane Rudhyar and Karl Weigl (LP: Serenus SRS 12072, n.d.). See also the film of Gertrud Bodenwieser's choreography of Nachtphantasien with Robert Cuckson, piano (NYPL Dance Archive). |
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Night Fantasies for piano op. 13 / Nachtphantasien für Klavier op. 13 |
October 1921 | Vienna, Klavierabend: Richard Byk, piano. |
1 April 1925 | Vienna, Kleiner Konzerthaussaal, Kompositions-Abend Karl Weigl: Louise Wandel, piano. |
23 March 1933 | Vienna, Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal: Ada Goldschmidt and Hans Weber, piano (2-piano arrangement). |
19 April 1934 | Vienna, Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal: Renée Gärtner, piano. |
7 May 1934 | Vienna, Akademietheater: Gertrud Bodenwieser Tanzgruppe (choreographed). |
3 June 1936 | Vienna, Musikverein, Grosser Musikvereinsaal: Tanzgruppe Gertrud Bodenwieser; Marcel Lorber, piano (choreographed). |
19 June 1936 | No. 3, choreographed under the title Sonnenuntergang (Sunset), Vienna, Grosser Konzerthaussaal, Wiener Festwochen 1936: Tanzgruppe Gertrud Bodenwieser, dir. Marcel Lorber, piano. |
22 November 1938 | New York, private musicale, home of Miss Henriette Michelson: Chamber Music Evening, Compositions by Karl Weigl: Karl Weigl and Vally Weigl, piano (2-piano arrangement). |
21 February 1941 | New Jersey, WHOM radio performance and broadcast: Harriet Serr and Karl Weigl, piano (2-piano version). |
20 May 1944 | New York, Studio Club, Concert for the Benefit of the MacDowell Colony: Karl Weigl and Edna Bockstein, piano (2-piano arrangement). |
30 May 1944 | New York, Concert for the Benefit of the MacDowell Colony: Edna Bockstein, piano (three-movement version). |
30 November 1945 | New York, Carnegie Hall: Ray Lev, piano. |
20 April 1959 | New York, Mannes College of Music, Karl Weigl Memorial Concert: Richard Woitach, piano. |
1 November 1959 | New York, Brooklyn Museum and simultaneous WNYC radio broadcast, Karl Weigl Memorial Program Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of His Death: unidentified pianist (no. 5). |
2 April 1960 | New York: further performance details unknown (no. 5). |
3 July 1964 | London: Robert Cuckson, piano. |
16 February 1971 | New York, Austrian Forum, Wolf—Mahler—Weigl; subsequently broadcast on New York’s WNYC radio, The Music of Karl Weigl: Vally Weigl and Zita Carno, piano (2-piano arrangement). |
19 October 1974 | New York, Donnell Library, Austrian Institute and Bruckner Society of America, Mahler—Weigl Program: Nancy Garniez, piano. |
10 November 1974 | New York, Brooklyn Museum, Karl Weigl Memorial Program: N. Gariniez and Vally Weigl, piano (2-piano arrangement). |
6 June 2002 | Vienna, Arnold Schönberg Center, Melting Pot USA—Emigrated Austrians: Albert Sassmann, piano (no. 1). Also on program: Pisk, Sechs Konzertstücke op. 7; Toch, Drei Klavierstücke op. 32; Schoenberg, Fünf Klavierstücke op. 23; Brahms/Paul Wittgenstein, Chaconne für die linke Hand nach der Bach Solo Partita; Robert Starer, Five Caprices; Krenek, George Washington Variations op. 120; Eduard Steuermann, Suite. |