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3:00 PM MONDAY, JULY 23, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
MISHA DICHTER,
piano
CIPA DICHTER,
piano
SCHUBERT
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
(for four-hands piano)
Allegro molto moderato—Largo—Allegro vivace—
Con delicatezza—Tempo I
COPLAND
El Salón México
(for two pianos)
(arr. Bernstein)
RAVEL
La valse
(for two pianos)
Misha Dichter
;
Cipa Dichter
–Intermission–
SCRIABIN
Étude in F-sharp major, op. 42, no. 4
Étude in B-flat minor, op. 8, no. 11
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959
Allegro
Andantino
Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Rondo: Allegretto
Misha Dichter
Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of
Sponsor
Lynne and David B. Weinberg
.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Misha Dichter’s Ravinia debut
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
Fantasy in F minor, D. 940
Despite differences in age and social class,
Schubert maintained a lifelong affection for the
countess Caroline Esterházy, whose tutor he be-
came in 1818. Schubert’s tender feelings were no
mystery to close acquaintances. Baron Karl von
Schönstein remembered the composer’s fond-
ness in his 1857 memoir: “Once, when she re-
proached Schubert in fun for having dedicated
no composition to her, he replied, ‘What is the
point? Everything is dedicated to you anyway.’ ”
Schubert apparently made the long-awaited
formal dedication to Esterházy with his mon-
umental Fantasy in F minor for four-hands
piano shortly before his death. Initial sketches
date from January 1828, but Schubert did not
complete his final manuscript for three more
months. Until 40 or so years ago, his sketches
were considered lost. However, these reap-
peared in fragmentary form at distant points
across the globe, in Switzerland and Vermont.
As a result, a couple of compositional difficulties
became apparent.
First, he originally included a D-major march
(an allusion, perhaps, to his earlier four-hand
Franz Schubert
Countess Caroline Esterházy
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