Six Fantasies
Full title | Six Fantasies for piano | |
Date composed | 1942 | |
Details |
1. Spring Evening 2. Burlesque 3. Remembrance 4. Capriccio 5. Longing 6. Halloween Composition completed in February 1942. Weigl subsequently arranged no. 4 for piano four hands; see Capriccio. Performance duration: ca. 26 min. |
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Manuscript sources | NYPL JOB 73-158, working holograph score (five folded folios), with title page that reads: Six Fantasies / for Piano / New York, February 1942 / Karl Weigl; the individual movements are initialed and dated at the final cadence—Spring Evening: 23./I. 1942 KW; Burlesque: 30./I. 1942 KW; Remembrance: 5./II. 1942 KW; Capriccio: 11./II. 1942 KW; Longing: 16./II. 1942; and Halloween: 19./II. 1942 KW. See also NYPL JPB 99-7 no. 96, reproduction of holograph fair copy of score (15 folded folios), titled Day-Phantasies. | |
Availabiity | Performance score available from ACA and KWF. | |
Recordings | Joseph Banowetz, piano (CD: Naxos, The Complete Piano Works of Karl Weigl, forthcoming) | |
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Six Fantasies for piano |