[1] Later that year, he wrote two more movements to create a work intended as a contribution to the appeal for funds to erect a monument to Beethoven in his birthplace, Bonn.

[2] The original title of Schumann's work was "Obolen auf Beethovens Monument: Ruinen, Trophaen, Palmen, Grosse Sonate f.d.

"[4] The Beethoven Monument was eventually completed, due mainly to the efforts of Liszt, who paid 2,666 thaler,[5] the largest single contribution.

The musical quotation of a phrase from Beethoven's song cycle An die ferne Geliebte in the coda of the first movement was not acknowledged by Schumann, and apparently was not spotted until 1910.

Liszt was one of the few pianists capable of meeting the then-unparalleled demands of the Fantasie, particularly the second movement coda's rapid skips in opposite directions simultaneously.

[7] The Fantasie has been recorded and played in public many times by great pianists such as Géza Anda, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Jorge Bolet, Clifford Curzon, Annie Fischer, Nelson Freire, Vladimir Horowitz, Wilhelm Kempff, Alicia de Larrocha, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, Sviatoslav Richter, Mitsuko Uchida, Mikhail Voskresensky, Marc-André Hamelin and Cyprien Katsaris.