Baerenreiter Verlag Sonata for Piano in a Major D 959 - Schubert - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano Sonata for Piano in a Major D 959 - Schubert - Performance Score, Urtext Edition - Piano

Composer: Franz Schubert
Editor: Walburga Litschauer
Format: Performance score, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Piano
Scoring: 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 Barenreiter's website.