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Franz Schubert

String Trios (Schubert)

Franz Schubert wrote three string trios, all of them in the key of B major. From the first of these, 111A, a trio Schubert wrote in 1814, only a few measures are extant. The string trio D 471

String Trio in B major, D 111A#

A few bars of an Allegro movement is all that is left of the string trio D 111A, composed in September 1814. The fragment is printed in the New Schubert Edition.

String Trio in B major, D 471#

Schubert started composing this piece in September 1816, but only finished the first movement. The second unfinished movement was first published in 1897, in the first volume of the Revisionsbericht of the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe.

String Trio in B major, D 581#

Schubert wrote this string trio in September 1817, and it consists of four movements. Both versions of this string trio were published in Series VI, Volume 6 of the New Schubert Edition in 1981.

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Franz Schubert