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Seven Fantasies for piano (Fantasien), No. 3: Capriccio, Op. 116 No. 3

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This guide follows Brahms’s Seven Fantasies for piano (Fantasien), No. 3: Capriccio, Op. 116 No. 3 (1892) in one part (theme and variations).

Recording: Wilhelm Kempff (piano) (1975)

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: Theme and variations0:00–2:41

in G minor, with an urgent opening that carries the falling third. Then the begins, in E-flat major, with a -like tune in triplet rhythm; the timeline marks its two parts. The opening , slightly varied and in the original (), and the piece ends with the restated fortissimo.

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