The Piano Sonata in C major 613 is an unfinished

piano sonata A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement (Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with two movemen ...

written by

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

in April 1818.

Movements

I. Moderato

Only a fragment exists, ending after the development with an implied cadence in E major.

(II. Adagio, D. 612)

According to

Martino Tirimo Martino Tirimo (born 19 December 1942) is a Cypriot classical pianist. 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 si ...

, Schubert's Adagio in E major, D. 612 is most likely the middle movement of this sonata.

III.

Lacking a tempo indication, this movement is in the style of a

siciliana The siciliana or siciliano (also known as sicilienne or ciciliano) is a musical style or genre often included as a movement within larger pieces of music starting in the Baroque music, Baroque period. It is in a slow Meter (music)#Compound mete ...

. It is incomplete, and ends at what is presumably the end of the development.

References

* Tirimo, Martino. ''Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas.'' Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.

External links

* {{Portal bar, Classical music Piano sonatas by Franz Schubert Compositions in C major 1818 compositions