Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 4, D. 537 (1817) {Haebler}

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including 600 secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of piano and chamber music. The Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (Trout Quintet), the Symphony No. 8, D. 759 (Unfinished Symphony), the three last piano sonatas, D. 958-960, and his song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are some of his most important works.

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Piano Sonata No. 4 in A minor, D. 537 (March, 1817) (published as Op. posth.164)

1. Allegro, ma non troppo (0:00)
2. Allegretto quasi Andantino (9:07)
3. Allegro vivace (16:00)

Ingrid Haebler, piano
rec. 1970

The work is numbered as Piano Sonata No. 4 in both Classical Archives and the Wiener Urtext Edition, and as Piano Sonata No. 6 in the Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

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.

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.