Piano Sonata in G major, D 894 (Schubert)

The Piano Sonata in G major D. 894, Op. 78 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, completed in October 1826.[1] The work is sometimes called the "Fantasie", a title which the publisher Tobias Haslinger, rather than Schubert, gave to the first movement of the work.[2] It was the last of Schubert's sonatas published during his lifetime, and was later described by Robert Schumann as the "most perfect in form and conception" of any of Schubert's sonatas.[3] A typical performance runs approximately 35 minutes.

The autograph manuscript of the sonata is preserved in the British Library.

  1. ^ Newbould, Brian (1997). Schubert, the music and the man. Internet Archive. Berkeley : University of California Press. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-520-21065-3.
  2. ^ McCreless, Patrick (Spring 1997). "A Candidate for the Canon? A New Look at Schubert's Fantasie in C Major for Violin and Piano". 19th-Century Music. 20 (3): 205–230. doi:10.1525/ncm.1997.20.3.02a00020. JSTOR 746862.
  3. ^ Grant Hirosima, for LAPhil.com.