Piano Sonata, D.157

Sonata · in E major

Franz Schubert 1797–1828
E major
Key
Sonata
Form
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His first piano sonata·Left unfinished·Written at eighteen·Composed 1815

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Key
E major
Form
Sonata

About the piece

Schubert's first piano sonata, written in 1815 when he was eighteen and working as a schoolmaster's assistant, a job he detested. Like a striking number of his sonatas it was left incomplete, breaking off after three movements with no finale. He abandoned works constantly, often after writing music of real quality, and the pattern extends from the early sonatas through to the Unfinished Symphony.

The composer

Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
1797–1828

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 compositions, including over 600 Lieder and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. Among these are the songs "Gretchen am Spinnrade", "Erlkönig" and "Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); the Symphony No. 9 in C major ; the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor ; the String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus for solo piano; the last three piano sonatas; the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde; the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise; and the song collection Schwanengesang.

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