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Franz Schubert

Piano Sonata in B major, D 575 (Schubert)

The Piano Sonata in B major 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

Music#

The sonata has four movements: 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.

References#

  • Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
  • *Performance by Seymour Lipkin from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format
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Franz Schubert