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.[1]
Music
The sonata has four movements:
- Allegro moderato (E♭ major)
- Andante molto (G minor)
- Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio (E♭ major)
- Allegro moderato (E♭ major)
This sonata is a transposition and elaboration of the Piano Sonata in D♭, D. 567.[2]
Daniel Coren summarized the nature of the recapitulation in the first movement of this sonata as “syncopated primary material”.[3]
Notes
- ^ Henle, p. 6
- ^ Gibbs p. 156
- ^ Coren, Daniel (1974). “Ambiguity in Schubert’s Recapitulations”. The Musical Quarterly. LX (4): 568–582. doi:10.1093/mq/LX.4.568.
References
- Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
Sources
- Schubert, Franz. Klaviersonaten Band 1. Berlin: G. Henle Verlag.
- Gibbs, Christopher (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
- Tusa, Michael C. (August–November 1984). “When did Schubert revise his opus 122?”. The Music Review. 45 (3–4): 208–219.
External links
- Piano Sonata D.568: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
