The
Piano Sonata in C major, 279, composed by
Franz Schubert in September 1815, has three
movements and is regarded as incomplete for lacking a fourth movement.
[Badura-Skoda 1997, p 242] D. 346, an unfinished Allegretto in C major, has been suggested as its final movement.
[Deutsch 1978, pp 172-173]
Movements
The sonata has three completed movements:
;I. Allegro Moderato : C major, with the
recapitulation in the
subdominant
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key of
F major.
;II. Andante : F major.
;III. Menuetto (Allegro vivace) - Trio : A minor, with the trio in A major.
:D. 277A is a slightly different version of the same Minuet, with a different Trio in F major. D. 277A probably predates the D. 279 Sonata.
[Deutsch 1978, pp 171-172]
Since 1928 several scholars, the first being
Walter Rehberg Walter Rehberg (14 May 1900 in Geneva – 24 October 1957) was a Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer on musical subjects who was particularly active from the 1920s to 1950s.
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, have suggested D. 346 to be the finale of the sonata D. 279:
[Tirimo 1997]
;(IV. Allegretto D. 346) : Fragment in C major ending at measure 231, where the second theme ends in F minor.
:Both
Martino Tirimo
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Born into a musical family in Larnaca, he began piano and violin lessons with his father, a distinguished conductor and violinist. He gave his first concert at the age of six, ...
and
Paul Badura-Skoda published a completion of this Allegretto, as fourth movement to D. 279, in 1997.
[Benson 2008, p 23]
:The time of composition of this Allegretto is uncertain, probably 1815
[OAW] or 1816.
[Deutsch 1978, p 205]
An abandoned start of a Rondo in C major, D. 309A (mentioned p. 173 in the 1978 version of the
Deutsch catalogue however without a catalogue number being assigned to it at the time, so in several publications mentioned as D
deest), dated 16 October 1815, is another candidate for what Schubert might have intended as last movement for this sonata.
[Litschauer 2000, p XVI]
Score
There were no publications of this work before the
Breitkopf & Härtel Alte Gesammtausgabe (AGA) edition of the end of the 19th century.
Manuscripts
The autograph of D. 279 is titled Sonate I, and has September 1815 indicated as time of composition.
The autograph of D. 346 has no date.
Both autographs are in the city library of Vienna, and can be consulted online via the Schubert-''Autographs'' website.
The autograph of D. 277A has disappeared, but there is a manuscript copy by
Eusebius Mandyczewski.
[Badura-Skoda 1997, p 243] The autograph of the D. 309A fragment has only six bars, and was later completely crossed out by Schubert.
This autograph, above the second autograph version of D. 310, is in the
Austrian National Library, and has been made available on-line.
First publication
D. 279 was first published in 1888 as No. 2 of the Piano Sonatas volume (Series X) of the ''Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe''.
The second volume of the Supplement (Series XXI) contained the D. 346 fragment.
D.277A was first published by
Otto Erich Deutsch in 1925.
Urtext Editions
Two
Urtext editions were published in 1997:
Paul Badura-Skoda (
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) completes the Sonata in C major D. 279 with the Allegretto D. 346, and gives D. 277A in an appendix.
The other publication of the same year is by
Martino Tirimo
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Born into a musical family in Larnaca, he began piano and violin lessons with his father, a distinguished conductor and violinist. He gave his first concert at the age of six, ...
(Wiener Urtext).
Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA)
The
New Schubert Edition
Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in german: Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is schedu ...
has D. 279 in VII/2/1.
[Litschauer 2000] The Rondo D. 309A fragment is given in an appendix of that publication.
D. 277A and D. 346 are contained in VII/2/4
[Goldberger 1988]
Performances
The work, including the D. 346 finale, takes approximately 20 minutes to perform.
Performances of the sonata with the D. 346 Allegretto as finale include the December 2000 recording played by Tamara Rumiantsev.
Bart Berman
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Career
Bart Berman studied piano with Jaap Spaanderman at a predecessor ...
recorded a completion of the D. 279 sonata.
[Bart Berman. ''(Un)finished piano sonatas'' Rotterdam, the Netherlands : Erasmus, 1997 (recorded December 1996). ]
References
Sources
Schubert-''Autographs''website of
Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW):
*
D 279 Sonate I*
D 346 Allegretto (Klavierstück) C-Dur*
D 309A, crossed out first bars of a Rondo in C major, preceding D 310B "Sehnsucht"*
Franz Schubert's Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe (AGA): Leipzig,
Breitkopf & Härtel:
**D. 279:
Julius Epstein (ed.)
''Serie 10: Sonaten für Pianoforte'' — No. 2 (1888).
**D. 346:
Eusebius Mandyczewski (ed.)
''Serie 21: Supplement'' — Instrumentalmusik, Band 3 — No. 17 (1897).
*
Urtext editions:
**
Paul Badura-Skoda (ed.
''Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas'' — Volume III (Early and Unfinished Sonatas) G. Henle Verlag
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(1997).
**
Martino Tirimo
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Born into a musical family in Larnaca, he began piano and violin lessons with his father, a distinguished conductor and violinist. He gave his first concert at the age of six, ...
(ed.
''Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas'' — Volume 1Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition (1997). ISMN 979-0-50057-223-7
*
Franz Schubert: Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NSA): Kassel,
Bärenreiter
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:
**
Walburga Litschauer (ed.
''Series VII: Piano Music, Part 2: Works for Piano Two Hands'' — Volume 1: Klaviersonaten I''(2000). ISMN 9790006497119
**David Goldberger (ed.
''Series VII: Piano Music, Part 2: Works for Piano Two Hands'' — Volume 4: Klavierstücke I''(1988). ISMN 9790006472208
**
Otto Erich Deutsch.
''Series VIII: Supplement'' — Volume 4: Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge(1978)
pp 171-173 (D. 277A — D. 279)p 205 (D. 346)
ISMN 9790006305148 —
* Michael Louis Benson.
A Comparative Study on the Published Completions of the Unfinished Movements in Franz Schubert's Sonata in C Major, D. 840 ("Reliquie").
' ProQuest (2008).
External links
VII,2/1: Klaviersonaten I
an
VII,2/4: Klavierstücke I
at the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe website
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