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Mozart, Rihm and Schubert: Piano Four Hands (LSO St Luke‘s Spotlight)

Mozart, Rihm and Schubert: Piano Four Hands (LSO St Luke‘s Spotlight)

Both Mozart and Schubert were fond of four-hands piano music. As children, Mozart and his sister Nannerl would perform duets on their tours of aristocratic Europe, while Schubert’s first surviving work – written when he was 13 – is a four-hands Fantasy. Later in life each would contribute handsomely to the genre, composing works that far outshone the domestic role it had traditionally occupied …