

Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata a minor op. post. 143 D 784
Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata op. 143 in a minor was composed in 1823 after his large “Wanderer Fantasy”. With its formal cohesion and mature originality, this a-minor Sonata initiated a new phase in Schubert’s sonata oeuvre. The composer dispensed here with all pianistic brilliance. At the same time, a wealth of colour and of sonorities triumphs in such a manner that the work numbers among Schubert’s most frequently played sonatas. For this Urtext edition, we had at our disposal the composer’s autograph as the authoritative source; the posthumous first edition was consulted only by way of comparison.
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Franz Schubert
He is not only the inaugurator of the art song and its most important composer in the nineteenth century, but he also realized a compositional concept in his instrumental works that opposed Viennese Classicism. Underlying the “heavenly length” of his works is a configuration of time that does not function according to the principle of motivic development, but addresses the notion of lingering; modifications occur mostly not in continuous unfolding, but through sudden eruptions. His ornate songs contradict the ideal of simplicity in the Lied aesthetics of his time, and provide the basis for the art song of the nineteenth century, regarded as they were as exemplary by subsequent generations of composers; they are defined by complex harmonies, an integration of the idioms of instrumental music, semantic models, and a new relationship between text and music in which the poem as a whole is interpreted through the composition, rather than just through word painting. His immense oeuvre in spite of his brief life comprises 600 songs, including his two famous song cycles; seven complete and several unfinished symphonies (including the “Unfinished” in B minor); other orchestral works; numerous pieces of chamber music; fourteen complete and several unfinished piano sonatas as well as other piano pieces; dances for piano and four-hand works; six masses and other sacred compositions; numerous pieces for choir or vocal ensemble, especially for male voices. Although he also contributed to every genre of music theater and his friends predicted a career for him in opera, only two of his ten finished operas were performed during his lifetime, as was the incidental music to “Rosamunde.”
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Hans-Martin Theopold (Fingering)
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