Zwei Ouverturen im "italienischen Stile" D 592 und D 597
Arrangement by the composer of D 590 and D 591
by Franz Schubert
Piano Duet - Sheet Music

Piano (4 hands) - Level 3

SKU: BA.BA05627

Arrangement by the composer of D 590 and D 591. Composed by Franz Schubert. Edited by Walburga Litschauer. This edition: urtext edition. Stapled. Barenreiter Urtext. Performance score, anthology. D 592, 597. 35 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA05627. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA05627).

ISBN 9790006473175. 30 x 23 cm inches. Preface: Walburga Litschauer.

It was under the influence of Rossini, whose operas enjoyed great popularity in Vienna, that Schubert in November 1817 wrote two orchestral overtures “in the Italy style” (D 590 und D 591).

According to Schubert’s first biographer, Heinrich Kreissle, these pieces owe their existence to a musical wager. The composer had attended a performance of Rossini’s opera “Tancredi”, the overture of which was praised to the skies by his friends. “Doubtless finding these laudations excessive, Schubert was roused to a spirit of contradiction and declared that he would have no difficulty writing overtures of this sort in a similar style within the briefest span of time. His companions took him at his word and vowed, for their parts, to reward the deed with a glass of good wine. Schubert set to work immediately and composed an overture for orchestra, followed soon thereafter by a second. Both works came to be known by the name “Overtures in the Italian Style” and were roundly applauded in concerts during his lifetime”.

Shortly after finishing the orchestral versions Schubert arranged his two “Italian overtures” for piano four-hands.

The present edition adheres to the editorial principles set down for the “Neue Schubert-Ausgabe”.

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