This is my favorite Schubert sonata. It demonstrates his brilliance so well. Passages from the middle of the second movement occurred to me this evening. I heard them, so to speak, in my mind.
The progression of chords — in the first movement, for example, is typically Schubertian.
Schubert, piano sonata in A major, D. 959
– posted by Roger W. Smith
December 2016; updated April 19, 2024