Franz Schubert: Sonata In A Major D 959: Piano: Instrumental Work

Edited on the basis of the New Schubert Edition.Newly engraved scholarly-critical performing edition.Notes on performance practice (Ger/Eng)Access to Schubert s drafts on the B renreiter website.New foreword (Ger/Eng) and a Critical Commentary (Eng).Schubert composed his great Piano Sonata In A Major just a few months before his untimely death in 1828. The balance this work strikes between lyrical melody emotional intimacy and pianistic brilliance makes it a highlight among his sonatas not least because of its poetic Andantino.This scholarly-critical edition by Walburga Litschauer is basedon the Urtext of the New Schubert Edition and uses the autograph manuscript as the prime source. The edition is rounded off by a new foreword valuable notes on performance practice as well as a Critical Commentary with information on performance-relevant alternative readings and Schubert s notation of accents.Schubert s drafts of the A major Sonata can be accessed on B renreiter s website.This new edition replaces the existing edition BA 5633.

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