Reproduced from holograph. Inscribed by composer on title page verso: Commissioned by the Juilliard School of Music, William Schuman, President, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary celebration and dedicated to the memory of William Kapell. At the end: Finished Jan. 19, ’57. Title on cover label: Piano fantasia. World premiere on October 25, 1957 by pianist William Masselos at the Juilliard Concert Hall.

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