Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 7, D. 568 (1826)

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including 600 secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of piano and chamber music. The Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (Unfinished Symphony), the three last piano sonatas, D. 958-960, and his song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are some of his most important works.

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Piano Sonata No. 7 in E-flat major, D. 568 (Second version 1825-26)
published posthumously as Op. 122

1. Allegro moderato (0:00)
2. Andante molto (G minor)
3. Menuetto. Allegretto — Trio (E♭ major)
4. Allegro moderato (E♭

Ingrid Haebler, piano

The Sonata is a revision and completion of the Sonata in D-flat major D 568. The D-flat major version was composed in June 1817, while the E-flat major revision and completion, published in 1829 after Schubert's death as Op. posth. 122, dates from sometime around 1826.

IMSLP gives extra information about both versions:
For the 1st version of the sonata, the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe published an alternative version of the 1st movement (Fassung der ersten Satzes nach der ersten Niederschrift). The Finale is a fragment, as the last page of the autograph, probably containing 17 bars, is lost. Its contents may be reconstructed from the parallel passages in the exposition and (for the coda) the 2nd version of the sonata. It is possible that the Scherzo in D-flat major (D.593/2), also composed in 1817, was originally conceived as the 3rd movement of the Sonata. The 1st version is numbered as Piano Sonata No.7 in both Classical Archives and the Wiener Urtext Edition; it is unnumbered in the Breitkopf & Härtel edition. The 2nd version is numbered as Piano Sonata No.7 in the Breitkopf & Härtel edition, and as Piano Sonata No.8 in the Wiener Urtext Edition; it is unnumbered in Classical Archives.