Night Fantasies

Full title Night Fantasies for piano op. 13 / Nachtphantasien für Klavier op. 13
Date composed 1911
Details 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.
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
Joseph Banowetz

Performances (click icon to expand or collapse list)
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.