Wanderer Fantasy

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Has any of you guys played Schubert's Wanderer ? What a monster ! I started it a couple of years ago, but I couldn't finish it : I didn't have enough time to deal with it, so I quit around the end of the 1st movement (that's about the time when I met my wife...).

Tell me how you like it and how easy or difficult you consider it.

[pskim]

I love the Wanderer Fantasy.  I played it as my junior recital program in college.  Like you I gave it up because of it's difficulties but I took it up again and it took me almost 3 years before I was brave enough to perform it in public (junior recital).  It is not the most pianistic piece ever written.  It is more of an orchestral piece in writing.  Liszt did arrange it as a concerto.

Give it a go again.  You should also start working out your arms for muscles and stamina.  You'll needed becasue by the 4th movement, you'll be too tired to play the fortes and the fortissimos in the 4th movement.  But, what a piece it is!