BARENREITER SCHUBERT Sonata For Pianoforte G Major Op78 D894,urtext Edition
- Catalog #: BA09615
- URTEXT EDITION
- PIANO
Sonata for Pianoforte G major op. 78 D 894
Edition no. BA 9615
ISMN 9790006562145
Volume / Series BÄRENREITER URTEXT
Editor Litschauer, Walburga
Language(s) of text German, English
Product format Performance score(s), Urtext edition
Instrumentation Piano
Comments Replaces BA 5630
Binding Stapled
Pages / Format XVIII, 36 S. - 31,0 x 24,3 cm
Schubert’s tuneful and buoyant Sonata in G major was published in April 1827 as a “Fantasy or Sonata”, to quote the heading of its first movement. His first reviewer noted that “the beloved and talented Lieder composer has presented the music world with a fantasy in which he lets his inventiveness loose. He presents the pianist with a harmonic indulgence without however amassing too many difficulties to complicate the execution”.
Our scholarly-critical Urtext edition, based on the definitive New Schubert Edition, presents the sonata in a spacious new engraving with practical page turns. The work is introduced by an updated Foreword (Ger/Eng) and detailed notes on key questions of performance practice, e.g. pedalling and Schubert’s characteristic way of writing accents. Rounding off the edition is a Critical Commentary (Eng) containing alternative readings of relevance to the performer. Schubert’s rejected initial version of the second movement can be accessed via the Barenreiter website.
- Scholarly-critical Urtext edition based on the New Schubert Edition
- Detailed notes on historical performance practice (Ger/Eng)
- Schubert’s rejected version of the second movement accessible online
