Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)

Franz Schubert by Josef Kriehuber (1846)

The Piano Sonata in E♭ major D 568 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano. It is a revision and completion of the Sonata in D♭ major D 568. The D♭ major version was composed in June 1817, while the E♭ major revision and completion, published in 1829 after Schubert's death as Op. posth. 122, dates from sometime around 1826.

Music

The sonata has four movements:

  1. Allegro moderato (E♭ major)
  2. Andante molto (G minor)
  3. Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio (E♭ major)
  4. Allegro moderato (E♭ major)

This sonata is a transposition and elaboration of the Piano Sonata in D♭, D. 567.

Daniel Coren summarized the nature of the recapitulation in the first movement of this sonata as "syncopated primary material".

Notes

  1. ↑ Henle, p. 6
  2. ↑ Gibbs p. 156
  3. ↑ Coren, Daniel (1974). "Ambiguity in Schubert's Recapitulations". The Musical Quarterly. LX (4): 568–582. doi:10.1093/mq/LX.4.568.

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