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The character pieces for piano known as the Moments Musicaux Op. 94 by Franz Schubert 17971828 belong to his latest works. They were first published in todays well-known form as a set of six pieces in 1828. Two of the pieces had already appeared in print, belonging to different collections, a few years earlier No. 3, entitled Air Russe Russian song, in 1823 and No. 6, Plainte dun Troubadour Lament of a minstrel in 1824. The other four pieces all date from approximately one year before his death, to the fall of 1827. In the collection of 1828 the earlier programmatic headings were omitted. Whether Schubert himself assigned |