Description
Schubert's 22 piano sonatas chart the remarkable evolution of the composer's craft, from the early attempts of his gifted teenage years to the towering masterpieces he composed shortly before his untimely death. This progression culminates in the five great sonatas of 1823-1826 and the final three works, which cement Schubert's status as a sonata composer on par with Beethoven.
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Volume I of the three-volume Henle Urtext edition of Franz Schubert's piano sonatas contains seven sonatas from the two earlier periods as well, which all became known with opus numbers. Only two were published during Schubert's lifetime. The book opens with what is no doubt the best-known sonata of these two periods, the A-major Sonata D 664 op. post. 120. Given the length of time between the composition of each – 1817, 1823, 1825 – the works present a great diversity of forms and expression.
