SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No. 4 in A minor (D.537) Score

"The Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537, of Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, composed in March 1817. The first movement is in A minor. The exposition modulates to the submediant, F major, rather than to the usual mediant, C major. The recapitulation begins in the subdominant, D minor, and most of the recapitulation's second group is in A major before a short coda returns to the minor mode for the movement's ending.

The second movement is in E major, a five-part rondo with an unconventional key scheme as follows: A (E major) → B (C major) → A (F major) → C (D minor) → A (E major). Schubert also composes brief transitions at the ends of each episode--that between the B section and the medial A section features a small amount of the B section's material in F major (the medial A section's key), while that between the C section and the final A section modulates from the C section's D minor up a tone to E minor, and then sits on its dominant for a few measures before the return to the movement's tonic key with the final A section. The movement ends with a short coda that is completely diatonic.

The final movement is in sonata form without development (the exposition modulates to E major, and the recapitulation then begins in E minor and moves to A major). It ends in the parallel major

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."
- Wikipedia 2020

Performed by András Schiff

Allegro ma non troppo - 00:05
Allegretto quasi andantino - 11:14
Allegro vivace - 19:33

[usernamehyt]

the second movement is directly related to D959 fourth movement, very genius re use of material

[jeromus]

20:51 sounds like a section from the first movement of Chopin's First Piano Concerto

[gerardbegni]

This sonata is a quite typical of an intermediate style which is not still the quite outstanding style of the lest year, as we can hear it in the later A minor sonata, but in which the instrumental original expression of Schubert is definitely acquired. Note that for instance Beethoven did not use A minor in any of his 32 piano sonatas, but with n outstanding genius in string quartet 15. It is quite interesting to compare this sonata with Mozart's sonata in A minor and his outstanding rondo in the same key.

[rexy]

The 2nd Mvt. is quite like a lullaby. That's some unique sound though I prefer the way how he treat the theme in D.959 more.
That's a rushly end for the 3rd Mvt.

[pdr]

מוסיקת קודש איטית ושמחה וקדושה ומרגשת של שמחת לידת בן ולידת נכד והדלקת נרות שבת בסונטה סימפוניה איטית לפסנתר לשבת ובית המקדש והכהנים על ידיי מבצע ליטאי חרדי. עם הקשת ניגון אחת יפה בסוף להשם. שתי הנגיעות היפות ב15:15 ובקודם 8 שניות לפני צריכים להיות ארוכים יותר. גם באחרין לשבת. Dreamy.

[pdr]

תכתבו את כל היצירות בכתב סת"ם על עור גם אם זה יהיה איטי היצירות יהיו טובות פי 1, 000X. עם אותיות עבריות וניקוד שיבחרו האותיות והניקוד עם סולם לפירוש על ידי שר המוסיקה וחבריו בהתייעצות.

[aprilh]

Proof that pieces in sonata form should not be written for their own sake! Not very interesting, unlike his final three masterpieces.