Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Julius Drake, piano

In the history of piano four hands described in this series, Franz Schubert holds a central position: he was the one who brought about the profound change in status that occurred in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century. It shifted from being a domestic and bourgeois entertainment genre to one with a much more ambitious expressive substance and formal structure, which would decisively influence its subsequent development.