Impromptu in C minor, S. 443

Schubert/arr. Ives
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) attended Yale College (1894–98), largely focusing on music, studying with the organist/composer Horatio Parker. One of Ives’s larger orchestration projects in his junior year was to arrange for full orchestra Franz Schubert’s piano Impromptu in C Minor, Op. 90, No. 1 (D. 899) from 1827. From Ives’s 37-page full score, pages 33–36 are missing (mm. 175–98); in this edition these missing measures are orchestrated in like style by the editor. Ives added motivic echoes in mm. 38–39 and replaced Schubert’s arpeggiated accompaniment in mm. 125–134 with an energetic running line.