Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 (D. 760) (Wanderer Fantasy) : autograph manuscript.

Record ID: 
439832
Creator: 
Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
Biographical Data: 
Austrian composer
Title: 
Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 (D. 760) (Wanderer Fantasy) : autograph manuscript.
Uniform title: 
Fantasien, piano, D. 760, C major
Inscription/Markings: 

Signed "Frz Schubert".
Watermark: GBR KIESLING and three crescent moons.

Notes: 

With autograph title on wrapper in French: Fantaisie / pour le Pianoforte / composée et dédiée / à / Monsieur Emm. Noble de Liebenberg / de Zsittin / par François Schubert.
Schubert dedicated the work to an Austrian nobleman, Emmanuel Karl Edler von Liebenberg, from a Jewish family, who had been a pupil of Hummel.
Working manuscript marked by and for the printer.
Includes a pasted-down passage, now lifted, revealing Schubert's original work.
Written in brown ink on five systems per page, each of two staves.
First Performance: 1832 in Vienna, Musikverein, by Karl Maria von Bocklet (piano). First Publication: February 1823, Vienna: Cappi & Diabelli, Plate C. & P. No. 1174.

Provenance: 

Robert Owen Lehman.

Associated names: 

Liebenberg de Zsittin, Karl Emanuel von, 1796-1856, dedicatee.
Friedländer, Max, 1852-1934, former owner.
Schatzki, Walter, 1899-1983, former owner.
Black, Frank, 1894-1968, former owner.
Lehman, Robin, owner.