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