The
Fantaisie ‘Hommage à Schumann’ is one of the composer’s earliest surviving works, and although first published in the mid-1870s was probably composed a few years earlier, possibly while still a student. Of the several early influences in Moszkowski’s development, Schumann’s was perhaps the most important, and here the young composer acknowledges as much by writing in the form of a pastiche which quite cleverly imitates Schumann’s piano style.
from notes by Martin Eastick © 1998
