Impromptu

An Impromptu [ ɛprɔ'ty: ] (French, from Latin in promptu eat " in his willingness ", " available " ) is a smaller piece of music in instrumental music.

The Impromptu is regularly attached to a solid musical structure, reminiscent of the Rondo or the baroque da capo aria, the first theme is followed by a middle part, after the first theme is repeated unchanged ( aba = the three -part song form)

Among the composers who deals with this form of music and have written famous Impromptus, include, inter alia, Robert Schumann, Alexander Scriabin, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert.

Very popular are the eight Impromptus ( two cycles D 899 (Op. 90 ) and D 935 (op. 142), each with four movements ) by Franz Schubert, as these pieces are all very catchy, wherein the one or else can be played by piano lovers who do not pianistic education, while other pieces of the series are technically extremely challenging. A special feature is the first theme of the Impromptus No. 2 from op 142, as its melody - it is an accident or intention actually - with the Schlager produced in the 1920s Who because the cheese has rolled to the station is the same. Mireille Mathieu has also used this melody for her song The days of love, which was first performed at a gala evening in Leipzig on 31 December 1970.