Franz Schubert
Impromptu
in F Minor, Op. 142 No. 4

The final F Minor Impromptu is not for the faint of heart – it's a wild, rhythmically disorienting dance, making clever use of unexpected accents and hemiolas.

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Impromptu
Op. 142 No. 4

Key: F Minor
Year: 1827
Level: 8+
Period: Early Romantic
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Fiery final Impromptu

The final Impromptu, in f minor just like the first one of the opus, comes across like some sort of wild, rhythmically disorienting dance, making clever use of unexpected accents and hemiolas to achieve its aims. Not for the faint of heart, it demands a refined technique capable of rapid and clear passage work, and even the occasional double thirds. A middle section explores some foreign keys in a playfully dance-like fashion, before transitioning back to the fiery first section once more. A slightly calmer section seems to slowly extinguish the piece, but a final, wild coda erupts, ending the opus with a decisive f minor scale, diving like a bird of prey from the highest into the lowest registers of the piano.

Background

The four Impromptus, Op. 90 (D. 899) were probably composed at least in part during the composer's stay in Dornbach in the summer of 1827, just over a year before his death. The first two went to press in late 1827; it wasn't until 1857 that Nos. 3 and 4 appeared in print.


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Impromptu in F Minor - Op. 142 No. 4 is a piece by the early romantic composer Franz Schubert.
The composition was first published in 1827 and is included in Impromptus by Schubert.