Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537 (Schubert)

The Piano Sonata in A minor D 537 of Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, composed in March 1817.

Movements

I. Allegro ma non troppo

A minor. The exposition modulates to the submediant, F major, rather than to the usual mediant, C major. The recapitulation begins in the subdominant, D minor, and most of the recapitulation's second group is in A major before a short coda returns to the minor mode for the movement's ending.

II. Allegretto quasi andantino

E major. A five-part rondo with an unconventional key scheme as follows:

A (E major) → B (C major) → A (F major) → C (D minor) → A (E major)

Schubert also composes brief transitions at the ends of each episode--that between the B section and the medial A section features a small amount of the B section's material in F major (the medial A section's key), while that between the C section and the final A section modulates from the C section's D minor up a tone to E minor, and then sits on its dominant for a few measures before the return to the movement's tonic key with the final A section. The movement ends with a short coda that is completely diatonic.

III. Allegro vivace

A minor. In sonata form without development (the exposition modulates to E major, and the recapitulation then begins in E minor and moves to A major).^[1]

Ends in the parallel major

The work takes approximately 20 minutes to perform. Daniel Coren has summarised the nature of the recapitulation in the last movement of this sonata.^[2] Harald Krebs has noted that Schubert reworked the opening of the second movement of the D. 537 sonata into the opening theme of the finale of the A major piano sonata, D. 959.^[3]

References in Popular Culture

The piano sonata is featured in the 1985 film adaptation of E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View," as protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is practicing piano.

Notes

↑ Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780520219571.
↑ Coren, Daniel (1974). "Ambiguity in Schubert's Recapitulations". The Musical Quarterly. LX (4): 568–582. doi:10.1093/mq/LX.4.568.
↑ Krebs, Harald (Autumn 2003). "Review of Charles Fisk's Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas". Music Theory Spectrum. 25 (2): 388–400. doi:10.1525/mts.2003.25.2.388.

References

Tirimo, Martino. Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas. Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.

External links

Piano Sonata D. 537: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

Piano sonatas (2 hands) by Franz Schubert
Preceded by Sonata in B major (D. 575)	AGA, Series 10 (15 sonatas) No. 6	Succeeded by Sonata in E-flat major (D. 568)
Preceded by Sonata in E major (D. 459)	21 Sonatas numbering system No. 4	Succeeded by Sonata in A-flat major (D. 557)
Preceded by Sonata in E minor (D. 769A)	23 Sonatas numbering system No. 5	Succeeded by Sonata in A-flat major (D. 557)

Piano compositions and sonatas by Franz Schubert

Two hands

Sonatas	E major–B major, D 157 C major–A minor, D 279 E major, D 459 E minor, D 769A A minor, D 537 (Op. posth. 164) A-flat major–E-flat major, D 557 E minor–A-flat major, D 566 D-flat major, D 567/568 E-flat major, D 568 (Op. posth. 122) F-sharp minor, D 571 B major, D 575 (Op. posth. 147) C major, D 613 F minor, D 625 C-sharp minor, D 655 A major, D 664 (Op. posth. 120) A minor, D 784 (Op. posth. 143) C major "Reliquie", D 840 A minor, D 845 (Op. 42) D major "Gasteiner", D 850 (Op. 53) G major "Fantasy", D 894 (Op. 78) C minor, D 958 A major, D 959 B-flat major, D 960
Fantasies	Wanderer Fantasy, D 760 "Fantasy" Sonata, D 894
Piano pieces	Allegro in E major, D 154 Minuet in A minor, D 277A Rondo in C major, D 309A Allegretto in C major, D 346 Fünf Klavierstücke (Five Piano Pieces), D 459 Drei Klavierstücke (Three Piano Pieces), D 459A Adagio in D-flat major, D 505 Rondo/Allegretto in E major, D 506 Scherzo/Allegro vivace in D major & Allegro in F-sharp minor, D 570 (Andante) in A major, D 604 Adagio in E major, D 612 Moments musicaux, D 780 (Op. 94) Impromptus, D 899 (Op. 90) & D 935 (Op. posth. 142) – Impromptus/Klavierstücke, D 946
Variations	Vaterländischer Künstlerverein II: Variation No. 38 on a waltz by Diabelli, D 718 Impromptu, D 935 (Op. posth. 142) No. 3 "Rosamunde"
Dances	Minuet in A minor, D 277A Valses Sentimentales, D 779 (Op. 50) – Valses Nobles, D 969 (Op. 77)

Four hands

Three Marches héroiques, D 602, (Op. 27)
Sonata in B-flat major for piano four-hands, D 617 (Op. 30)
Three Marches Militaires, D 733 (Op. 51)
Sonata in C major "Grand Duo", D 812 (Op. posth. 140)
Six Grandes marches, D 819, (Op. 40)
Fantasia in F minor, D 940 (Op. posth. 103)
Two Marches caractéristiques, D 968b (Op. posth. 121)

Sonatas

violin and piano	Violin Sonata in A major "(Grand) Duo", D 574 (Op. posth. 162)
arpeggione and piano	Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D 821

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