ExclusiveSchubert: Piano Sonata in A major D. 664 - II. Andante

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major D. 664 - II. Andante. This beautiful piece was played by Paul Pitman. It has common licence (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through musopen.org.

The Piano Sonata in A major, D 664, Op. posth. 120 is a solo piano sonata composed by Franz Schubert in the summer of 1819.

The "Little" A major sonata is well regarded among pianists and is so called to distinguish it from the substantial 1828 sonata in the same key. It is the shortest of Schubert's complete sonatas and the manuscript, completed in July 1819, was dedicated to 18-year-old Josephine von Koller of Steyr in Upper Austria. Schubert considered her to be "very pretty" and "a good pianist". The lyrical, buoyant and typically poignant nature of this sonata fits the image of a young Schubert in love in the Austrian countryside, which he also considered "unimaginably lovely".

The A major sonata is straightforward, with a dulcet melodic opening. It is notable as the first of Schubert's piano sonatas in which the sonata form, perfected by his idol Beethoven, does not appear to be a challenge; rather, it is a "joyous breakthrough", a triumphant rejection of the strict rules of composition.

The original manuscript of this 'little' sonata has been lost.

James Webster noted the A–B–A form of the first movement's first thematic group. Daniel Coren summarised the nature of the recapitulations in the first and third movements. Leo Black observed that Schubert reworked the opening theme of the sonata's slow movement for his song "Der Unglückliche".

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