Thematic Development of Schubert's Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First Movement)
Thematic Development of Schubert's Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First Movement)

Author: Yeo

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2010-02

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 3640515714

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: Franz Schubert' last piano sonata, D. 960 in Bb Major by was written in 1828 (published in 1839), shortly after Beethoven's death -- he died in 1827. According to Robert Winter, Beethoven was the most influential composer for Franz Schubert. Schubert's sonatas, in particular, were modeled on Beethoven's in terms of form and structure. This last sonata is one of Schubert's popular sonatas, and is often performed. It also has been frequently criticized because of the unusual aspects of its sonata form. Winter has described the last sonata as, "suffused by the composer's characteristic melancholy, mingled with a feeling of contemplative ecstasy. The stepwise elegiac opening alternates with disembodied trills in the bass, leading to remote keys, notably f# minor, before the exposition is over." This paper will discuss the following aspects of the first movement -- the form, the key schemes, and the development of themes.

Thematic Development of Schubert’s Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First movement)
Thematic Development of Schubert’s Last Piano Sonata, D. 960 (First movement)

Author: Yeo

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2010-01-20

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 3640515366

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Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, The University of Malaya, language: English, abstract: Franz Schubert’ last piano sonata, D. 960 in Bb Major by was written in 1828 (published in 1839), shortly after Beethoven’s death -- he died in 1827. According to Robert Winter, Beethoven was the most influential composer for Franz Schubert. Schubert’s sonatas, in particular, were modeled on Beethoven’s in terms of form and structure. This last sonata is one of Schubert’s popular sonatas, and is often performed. It also has been frequently criticized because of the unusual aspects of its sonata form. Winter has described the last sonata as, “suffused by the composer’s characteristic melancholy, mingled with a feeling of contemplative ecstasy. The stepwise elegiac opening alternates with disembodied trills in the bass, leading to remote keys, notably f# minor, before the exposition is over.” This paper will discuss the following aspects of the first movement -- the form, the key schemes, and the development of themes.

Schubert's Late Music
Schubert's Late Music

Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-07

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1107111293

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A thematic exploration of Schubert's style, applied in readings of his instrumental and vocal literature by international scholars.

Rethinking Schubert
Rethinking Schubert

Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0190200103

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Rethinking Schubert offers a conspectus of issues in Schubert scholarship, a reappraisal of key debates, and an exploration of new avenues of research. It brings together twenty-two essays by some of today's most important Schubert scholars, which provide new insights into this composer, his music, his influence, and his legacy.

Retracing the Journey of Franz Schubert's Wanderer
Retracing the Journey of Franz Schubert's Wanderer

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Franz Schubert's last piano Sonata in B-flat, major, D. 960, has always remained an intriguing piece of music for me ever since hearing it for the first time when I was an undergraduate at Rice University. Even though the technique required within the B-flat Sonata is not as difficult as other Schubert piano works, a performance of this piece cannot be approached lightly considering the emotional concentration that the music demands. This document is dedicated to exploring the source of the Sonata in B-flat's emotional content, which will involve Schubert's failing health, his depression, and his preoccupation with a popular character in German Romanticism, the Wanderer. The first chapter addresses Schubert's biographical background to explain why his emotional and physical state at the time of the Sonata in B-flat's creation could have affected the composer's preference for music related to the Wanderer. The second chapter discusses Schubert's famous song "Der Wanderer," D. 493, based upon one of the most popular characters of the Romantic era, the isolated Wanderer searching for his homeland. This chapter also identifies musical characteristics within "Der Wanderer," that resurface throughout Schubert's other works related to a Wanderer character. The following chapter, the main portion of the document, uncovers these musical characteristics of the Wanderer within Schubert's Sonata in B-flat, in addition to other harmonic and melodic associations that reveal the Wanderer's influence on the Sonata. Finally, the last chapter links the Sonata in B-flat to other Wanderer characteristics found throughout many of Schubert's late compositions. In order to fully appreciate the genius of the Sonata in B-flat, D. 960, Schubert's subtle references to the Romantic Wanderer within the sonata must be fully understood. This will in turn lead to a greater understanding of the great composer in his final months of life.