SCHUBERT - SONATA A MAJOR D 959 PIANO

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 based on 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 Brenreiter's website.

• 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 Brenreiter website
• New foreword (Ger/Eng) and a Critical Commentary (Eng)