Schubert: Two Scherzos, D. 593

"Franz Schubert spent the spring and summer of 1817 composing piano sonatas and when autumn came and he discovered some residual thoughts for piano scherzos floating around his head, he simply put them down on paper as two self-standing scherzos and left it at that. In 1871, these two slender works found their way into print as the 2 Scherzos for piano, and Otto Erich Deutsch entered them in his complete Schubert catalog as D. 593."

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) was a great Austrian composer. He wrote over six hundred lieder (songs), nine symphonies, liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, numerous pieces of chamber music, and a large body of solo piano music. Renowned for his magnificent melodies, Franz Schubert was perhaps even more proficient at creating music of extraordinary depth and emotional power. And despite his tragically short life, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest of all composers.

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