The Piano Sonata in E minor D 566 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano written in June 1817. The original manuscript appeared to lack a finale.[1] Ludwig Scheibler (1848-1921) was the first to suggest in 1905 that the Rondo in E, D.506 might be that movement.[2] The British composer and musicologist Kathleen Dale produced the first edition using this suggestion in 1948.[3] The 1976 Henle edition by Paul Badura-Skoda followed the same practice.[4]

Movements

I. Moderato

E minor
Harald Krebs has noted the use of Charles Fisk's "search for thematic identity" in his discussion of the sonata's opening theme.[5]

II. Allegretto

E major

III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio

A-flat major

(IV. Rondo: Allegretto, D 506)

E major
D 506 has been associated with the last piece of Fünf Klavierstücke (D 459A/3) and the Adagio D 349 too as a set of movements that might form a sonata.[6]

The work takes approximately 20 minutes to perform or 25–30 minutes with the rondo finale.

References

  1. ^ Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
  2. ^ Maurice J. E. Brown. 'Recent Schubert Discoveries', in Music & Letters. Vol. 32, No. 4 (October 1951), pp. 349-361
  3. ^ Schubert, Sonata in E Minor, British & Continental Music Agencies Edition No. 60 (1948)
  4. ^ 'Klaviersonaten, Bd. III by Franz Schubert', reviewed by Howard Ferguson in Music & Letters Vol. 58, No. 4 (October 1977), p. 495
  5. ^ Krebs, Harald (Autumn 2003). "Review of Charles Fisk's Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas". Music Theory Spectrum. 25 (2): 388–400. doi:10.1525/mts.2003.25.2.388. JSTOR 10.1525/mts.2003.25.2.388.
  6. ^ F. Bisogni, quoted in Walburga Litschauer's Preface to Schubert: Piano Sonatas I. Bärenreiter 2000

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