Claire Huangci - Schubert Sonata 894 G-Major

Pianist: Claire Huangci
Location: Curtis Institute of Music
The Piano Sonata in G major, D. 894, Op. 78 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano, completed in October 1826. The work is sometimes called the “Fantasie”, a title which the publisher Tobias Haslinger, rather than Schubert, gave to the first movement of the work. It was the last of Schubert’s sonatas published during his lifetime, and was later described by Robert Schumann as the “most perfect in form and conception” of any of Schubert’s sonatas.
The sonata consists of four movements:
-Molto moderato e cantabile (G major, largely conforming to sonata form)
Andante (D major, with two trios, the first in B minor, the relative minor, and the second in the parallel minor, D minor)
Menuetto: Allegro moderato - Trio (B minor, trio in B major)
Allegretto (G major)
The mood and character of the sonata are mostly serene and luminous, with some contrasting passages that become stormy and dark. The last movement has tremendous wit and poignancy. The third movement’s opening theme is remarkably similar to the second theme of the first movement of Schubert’s second Piano Trio. Schubert used a “circle of sixths” series of key signatures in the fourth movement of this sonata. Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and Paul Lewis stated that this was their favourite Schubert sonata .

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