Franz Schubert - Klaviersonate a-moll op. post 164 D 537

Besetzung: Klavier zu zwei Händen

24 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Franz Schubert seems to have been particularly attracted to a-minor. Not just one but three of his piano sonatas are in this key. The earliest of them, D 537, was composed in March 1817 and was simultaneously his first completed piano sonata ever. It is characterised by concise brevity. The three-movement form dispenses with the usual scherzo. It is far removed from the drama of its a-minor sibling works; meandering modulations often lead to distant harmonic regions and lighten the mood to major – significantly, the sonata also ends in A major.
Henle’s Urtext edition is based on the autograph, which is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris; a contemporary manuscript copy and the posthumous first edition were only used for comparison purposes. The preface by Schubert expert Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl and the detailed comment section provide information about the work’s genesis and about open questions concerning the musical text. The fingerings by renowned Schubert interpreter Martin Helmchen are a further plus point of this new edition.

• Reihe: G. Henle Urtext-Ausgabe
• ISBN: 9790201815565
• Sprache: Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.2025
• Genre: Musik/Musikalien
• Verlag: Henle, Günter
• Technische Redaktion: Martin Helmchen
• Einführung von: Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl
• Leitender Herausgeber / leitende Herausgeberin: Dominik Rahmer
• Komponist(en): Franz Schubert