Schubert Piano Sonatas Volume II (Henle)

Schubert’s 22 piano sonatas sketch a most illuminating picture of the
prematurely departed composer and of his compositional path.From the first
attempts of the gifted 16- to 19-year- old musician one can trace a continuous
development leading to the five great sonatas which he wrotein the years 1823
and 1826, and finally to the three masterworks written shortly before his
death, which place him on a level with Beethoven as a composer of sonatas.

Volume II of the three-book Henle Urtext edition contains not only the G major
Sonata D 894 op. 78, with its glorious piano writing full ofdelicate
expressiveness, but also the three great sonata masterpiecesin c minor, A
major and B flat major, with which Schubert looks far into the future and
which have long since taken their place in the classical canon of piano sonata
literature.

Contents:

• Piano Sonata G major op. 78 D 894
• Piano Sonata C minor D 958
• Piano Sonata B flat major D 960