"Dohnányi’s Orchestrations of Schubert’s Fantasy in F Minor and the Moments musicaux Piano Cycle"

Laskai, Anna (2020) "Dohnányi’s Orchestrations of Schubert’s Fantasy in F Minor and the Moments musicaux Piano Cycle". STUDIA MUSICOLOGICA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGY OF THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 61 (3-4). pp. 293-321. ISSN 1788-6244 (print); 1789-2422 (online)

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Abstract

Ernst von Dohnányi’s brilliant instrumentation skills were already recognized by his contemporaries. His former disciple and first monographer Bálint Vázsonyi published an anecdote, according to which Béla Bartók considered the orchestral version of Ruralia hungarica (op. 32) as the first truly “orchestrated” Hungarian symphonic work. Nevertheless, neither Dohnányi’s own orchestration practices nor the transcriptions he prepared for symphony orchestra from the works of other composers have been studied. This paper examines two of these orchestrations, made in 1928 on the occasion of the Schubert Centenary – Dohnányi’s orchestral transcriptions of the Fantasy in F Minor, originally written for piano four hands, and the piano cycle Moments musicaux – both being virtually unknown to the public. The analysis also provides an insight into Dohnányi’s interpretation of Schubert, including his approach to the Austrian composer.

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