Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959
This guide follows Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959 (1828) in four parts: Allegro (sonata form), Andantino, Scherzo. Allegro vivace (minuet and trio) and Rondo. Allegretto (rondo).
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Follow all 28 sections as they play
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- II
- III.
- IV.
The opens with a loud chordal over a low A, answered at once by quiet, descending triplet arpeggios; these two ideas supply much of the later material. The is a lyrical melody in four-part harmony, reached in the expected of E major. The keeps shifting between C major and B major, and then the arrives. In the the hesitantly and quietly, and a strange Italian-sixth chord just before the end recalls the rising semitone heard throughout.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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