User:Nitking/Schubert Impromptu in F minor (D 935)

One of Franz Schubert's (1797-1828) many and very proliferated compositions are his famous Impromptus. Some people argue that the Impromptus are actually Schubert's sonata movements in disarrayed forms. However, according to the Webster's Dictionary, the word "Impromptu" means it is something unprepared, meaning Schubert wrote these Impromptu on a moment's inspirational notice and without any fore planning, thus it should not be considered as a sonata.

On Impromptu (D.935) opus 142, the first of the four impromptus is about a couple (lovers) softly bickering, auguring and it depicts a dialog between two people, a male and a female represented by the base and higher octave chords.

Many pianists of great fame have failed to see this nuances in this composition and thus played it out quite flat and therefore loosing the very ingenious dialog that Schubert put in.

To listen to the true meaning and the humor of what Schubert puts in, on has to go back to the 2001, the Eleventh Van Cliburn Competition and during the elimination round, Ms Olga Kern interpreted this very humorous Impromptu in the most correct manner. She exaggerated for us the base male voice and the higher pitch female voice and thus this becomes a story, not just a flat, another "nice to listen to" Schubert Impromptu.