[D. 819]. Six Grandes Marches et Trios pour le Pianoforte à quatre mains composé et dediées en marque de reconnaissance à son ami Monsieur I. Bernhardt ... Op. 40. Cahier [1-2]

Vienne: Ant. Diabelli u. Comp. [PN C. et C. No. 3539-3540], 1830. 2 volumes. Oblong folio. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-21; [1] (title), 2-25 pp. Engraved.

Slightly browned; some minor foxing; early tape to spines; pencilled fingering; contemporary ownership inscription to corner of Cahier 2; small oval handstamp of Scharfenberg & Luis in New York to foot of titles to both parts, slightly trimmed to Cahier 1. Third edition. Deutsch 819/1-6. Hoboken 13, 203 and 204.

"Schubert's most original contribution to the keyboard repertory is arguably his music for piano duet... [His] unusual interest in the march scarcely stemmed from any enthusiasm for war but rather from the great range of stylistic possibilities it afforded, from funeral march to evocations of toy soldiers. The best of these marches (which include the six Grandes marches of 1824) exploit the full range of four hands while preserving a sense of intimate conversation." Maurice J.E. Brown, Eric Sams, and Robert Winter in Grove Music Online.