Six Musical Moments, D. 780
Franz Schubert wrote his Six moments musicaux, Op. 94 (now catalogued as D. 780) between 1823 and 1828. These are a series of six short pieces for solo piano, among the most frequently played of Schubert's music for this instrument. They have been recorded and arranged many times. When they were first published in 1828, it was under the name ''Six Momens [sic] musicals [sic]". The correct French forms are now usually used – moments (instead of 'momens'), and musicaux (instead of 'musicals').
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited, but interest in Schubert's work increased dramatically in the decades following his death at the age of 31. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, among others, discovered and championed his works in the 19th Century. Today, Schubert is admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers.
