Schubert’s 22 piano sonatas sketch a most illuminating picture of the prematurely departed composer and of his compositional path. From the first attempts of the gifted 16- to 19-year- old musician one can trace a continuous development leading to the five great sonatas which he wrote in the years 1823 and 1826, and finally to the three masterworks written shortly before his death, which place him on a level with Beethoven as a composer of sonatas.The intensity with which Schubert approached the...

• Sonata A flat major D 557
• Sonata C major D 279/346
• Sonata C major D 613/ 612
• Sonata (relic) C major D 840
• Sonata D flat major D 567
• Sonata E major D 157
• Sonata (5 Piano Pieces) E major D 459
• Sonata e minor D 566/506
• Sonata f minor D 625/505
• Sonata f sharp minor D 571/604/570
• Appendix:
• Early version D 154 of the Sonata E major D 157, 1st movement
• Early version D 277 A of the Sonata C major D 279, 3rd movement
• Fragment c sharp minor D 655
• Fragment e minor D 769 (994) ...