The Piano Sonata No.7 in E-flat major by Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

 is a sonata for solo piano composed in 1817, and originally published after Schubert's death in 1829 as Op

Opus number

An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...

. posth. 122. The sonata is in four movements

Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...

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• I. Allegro moderato : E flat major
• II. Andante molto : G minor
  G minor
  G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. For the harmonic minor scale, the F is raised to F. Its relative major is B-flat major, and its parallel major is G major....
  
  
• III. Menuetto : E flat major (and A-flat major in the "trio
  Ternary form
  Ternary form, sometimes called song form, is a three-part musical form, usually schematicized as A-B-A. The first and third parts are musically identical, or very nearly so, while the second part in some way provides a contrast with them...
  
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• IV. Allegro moderato : E flat major

This sonata is a transposition

Transposition (music)

In music transposition refers to the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes up or down in pitch by a constant interval.For example, one might transpose an entire piece of music into another key...

and elaboration of the Sonata in D flat, D.567.

Daniel Coren has summarised the nature of the recapitulation in the first movement of this sonata as "syncopated primary material".

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