Piano Sonata in B major, D. 575 (Schubert)
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The Piano Sonata No. 9 in B major, D. 575 by Franz Schubert
is a sonata for solo piano, posthumously published as Op.
147. Schubert composed the sonata in 1817
, in four movements
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The work takes approximately 24 minutes to perform.
Daniel Coren has noted that the first movement of this sonata is the only such movement in Schubert's sonatas where the recapitulation literally transcribes the exposition.
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
is a sonata for solo piano, posthumously published as Op.
Opus number
An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...
147. Schubert composed the sonata in 1817
1817 in music
-Classical music:*Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quintet *Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.*Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major-Opera:...
, in four movements
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
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- Allegro ma non troppo
- Andante in E major
- Scherzo: Allegretto in G major, with trio in D major
- Allegro giusto
The work takes approximately 24 minutes to perform.
Daniel Coren has noted that the first movement of this sonata is the only such movement in Schubert's sonatas where the recapitulation literally transcribes the exposition.
External links
- Performance by Seymour Lipkin from the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumIsabella Stewart Gardner MuseumThe Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...
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