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The works discussed so far are domestic pieces, ranging from moderate to high in their technical difficulty, but all withinreach of a well-trained amateur. Thalberg’s fantasias on themes from Don Giovanni are spectacular show pieces of the kind favored by leading concert pianists to draw in the multitudes of their supporters. They were surely beyond the reach of amateurs, and most of those who purchased the printed editions must have done so largely as an act of homage to one of the great “celebs” of the day. From our point of view they are of historical more than practical interest, though I hope some enterprising pianist will record them.
Thalberg’s pre-eminent rival, Franz Liszt, was to publish his own Réminiscences de Don Juan in 1843; if it did not surpass Thalberg’s in technical demands, its unstated program related the themes to the story of the opera in ways that Thalberg did not attempt. Instead, he embeds the themes in a web of dazzling virtuosity, though in each work there is a long introduction of independent character by which Mozart’s familiar tunes are gradually introduced.
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