Today’s video is our first song transcription. Song transcriptions are a fascinating genre in the piano repertoire, and in this video, I go into some of the dangers and possibilities of song transcription.
This song is a work of genius that Schubert composed when he was only 19 years old—it also became the basis for Schubert’s “Wanderer” Fantasy in C major, one of the seminal works of the 19th century, and an enormous influence on later composers, especially Franz Liszt and César Franck.
Stay tuned for a video on the Wanderer Fantasy next week!