Piano Sonata in B major, D 575 (Schubert)

Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert c. 1814, attributed to Josef Abel

The Piano Sonata in B major D 575 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, posthumously published as Op. 147 and given a dedication to Sigismond Thalberg by its publishers. Schubert composed the sonata in August 1817.

The work takes approximately 24 minutes to perform.

Music

The sonata has four movements:

  1. Allegro ma non troppo (B major)
  2. Andante (E major)
  3. Scherzo: Allegretto – Trio (G major, D major)
  4. Allegro giusto (B major)

The first movement has a four-key exposition (B major, G major, E major, F♯ major). Daniel Coren has noted that the first movement is the only such movement in Schubert's sonatas in which the recapitulation is an exact transposition of the exposition.

Notes

  1. ↑ Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. p. 106. ISBN 9780520219571.
  2. ↑ 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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