Home sweet home, fantaisie
Fantasia
Sigismond Thalberg 1812–1871
Fantasia
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Themes & character
On a popular song·Variation treatment·Audience favorite·Sentimental source
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- Fantasia
About the piece
A fantasy on Home! Sweet Home!, the enormously popular song from Henry Bishop's 1823 opera Clari, which had become a byword for sentimental attachment to home across the English-speaking world.
Thalberg toured the United States in the late 1850s to great success, and pieces built on tunes his audiences already knew and loved were a reliable part of the formula. Elaborating a familiar melody into a display piece was the standard virtuoso currency of the era.
The composer
Sigismond Thalberg
1812–1871
Sigismond Thalberg was an Austrian composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century.
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