Piano Trio No. 1 (Schubert)

The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life.^[1][2] It was published in 1836 as Opus 99, eight years after the composer's death. Like the E-flat major trio, it is an unusually large scale work for piano trio, taking around 40 minutes in total to perform.

Structure

The piano trio contains four movements:

• Allegro moderato
• Andante un poco mosso
• Scherzo. Allegro
• Rondo. Allegro vivace

The third movement is in the classical minuet form, with the trio section resembling a relaxed waltz. The principal theme of the last movement resembles that of one of Schubert's songs, "Skolie".^[3]

Footnotes

References

• Gibbs, Christopher (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge University Press. 
• Einstein, Alfred (1951). Schubert: A Musical Portrait. New York: Oxford University Press. 

External links

• Piano Trio No.1: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Performance of Piano Trio No. 1 by the Eroica Trio from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format