Tag: last sonatas

• Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A, D959

  The Sonata in A, D959, is the middle panel of the triptych of Franz Schubert’s final sonatas. Schubert completed his final three piano sonatas in September 1828, just a few months before his death at the age of 31, and he numbered the three sonatas sequentially, perhaps envisioning them as a cycle. After his death,…

  The Cross-Eyed Pianist

  February 1, 2017

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