The Sonatensatz in B-flat major
D. 28, also known as Piano Trio in B-flat major, is a single-movement work for
piano trio
A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. It is one of the most common forms found in classical chamber music. The term can also refer to a group of m ...
by
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...
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This work was written in 1812, immediately after the fifteen-year-old composer lost his place in Vienna's Imperial Chapel Choir due to his voice breaking.
Schubert spent most of the August composing this work, his first ever composition for strings and piano, but abandoned it after finishing the first movement.
It was also in this year that his mother died.
Although relatively little known, the work is important among Schubert's early output, and Schubert's only previous exercise in the genre when he penned his more celebrated piano trios
D. 898 and
D. 929 15 years later.
Like several other of his works from this time, this piano trio movement was heavily inspired by classical models, partly reflective of Schubert's having begun lessons with
Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri (18 August 17507 May 1825) was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg monarchy ...
, although Schubert was already giving the cello part a more emancipated role than in Mozart's piano trios.
writes that it contains "...some charming passages and even traits of genuine Schubert here and there in this movement; but altogether one can still feel Schubert's lack of experience."
Structure and analysis
The work comprises a single sonata form movement marked ''
Allegro''. It takes approximately 10 minutes to perform
The
sonata form structure is notable
for a discursive
exposition
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*Universal exposition or World's Fair
* Expository writing
** Exposition (narrative)
* Exposition (music)
*Trade fair
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incorporating numerous themes.
References
Notes
Sources
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External links
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*, Trio Atanassov, 2015
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