Piano Sonata in A-flat major, D 557 (Schubert)

Movements#

The work is relatively short and a performance takes somewhat between 10 and 15 minutes. The sonata is cheerful and uncomplicated, and carries remembrances of Mozart and the Baroque era. The beginning of the first movement resembles the opening of the menuetto, D. 380, Nr. 3. The final movement has a dance-like character.

Score#

The sonata was first published in 1888, in the Breitkopf & Härtel complete edition. ;Manuscripts The autograph of the sonata, dated May 1817, is incomplete — it stops at the 28th measure of the third movement, but there is a contemporary complete manuscript. ;Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA) In the New Schubert Edition D. 557 is given in VII/2/1.

Sources#

• Franz Schubert’s Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe (AGA): Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel:
• Julius Epstein (ed.) Serie 10: Sonaten für Pianoforte — No. 3 (1888).
• Urtext editions:
• Paul Badura-Skoda (ed.) Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas — Volume III (Early and Unfinished Sonatas) . G. Henle Verlag (1997).
• Martino Tirimo (ed.) Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas — Volume 1 Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition (1997). ISMN 979-0-50057-223-7
• Franz Schubert: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NSA): Kassel, Bärenreiter:
• Otto Erich Deutsch. Series VIII: Supplement — Volume 4: Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge — pp. 323-324 (1978). ISMN 9790006305148 —
• Walburga Litschauer (ed.) Series VII: Piano Music, Part 2: Works for Piano Two Hands — Volume 1: Klaviersonaten I (2000). ISMN 9790006497119

External links#

• VII,2/1: Klaviersonaten I at the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe website