Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537 (Schubert)
The Piano Sonata in A minor D 537 of Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, composed in March 1817.
Movements
I. Allegro ma non troppo
A minor
II. Allegretto quasi andantino
E major
(E major → C major → F major → D minor → E major)
III. Allegro vivace
A minor. In sonata form without development (the exposition modulates to E major, and the recapitulation then begins in E minor and moves to A major).[1]
Ends in the parallel major
The work takes approximately 20 minutes to perform.[citation needed] Daniel Coren has summarised the nature of the recapitulation in the last movement of this sonata.[2] Harald Krebs has noted that Schubert reworked the opening of the second movement of the D. 537 sonata into the opening theme of the finale of the A major piano sonata, D. 959.[3]
References in Popular Culture
The piano sonata is featured in the 1985 film adaptation of E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View," as protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is practicing piano.
Notes
- ^ Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780520219571.
- ^ Coren, Daniel (1974). "Ambiguity in Schubert's Recapitulations". The Musical Quarterly. LX (4): 568–582. doi:10.1093/mq/LX.4.568.
- ^ 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.
References
- Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
External links
- Piano Sonata D. 537: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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