SCHUBERT'S VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE
Music
Played by AMINA LUCCHESI and MARGERY CUNNINGHAM
Fantasy, Op. 159
Andante molto, Allegretto, Andani tino, Allegro, Allegretto, Presto
SCHUBERT was a violinist himself. He learned it as a child from his elder brothers who themselves learnt it from their father. Before he was eleven he played such violin solos as were necessary to the service in the church where he was a choirboy, and later played first violin in the school orchestra and joined in quartets at home during the week-ends. But it was after his schooldays that he began to write for the violin as a solo instrument. This may partly have been because, somewhere about his eighteenth year, he had become muoh absorbed with the pianoforte, and having mastered the technique of writing for it, he began to compose pianoforte solos and music for a solo instrument with a complementary pianoforte part. So that most of his violin and pianoforte music was written round about the year 1816.