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Piano Sonata in D-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)

sonata fragment by Franz Schubert

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ18163164 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Piano Sonata in D♭ major D 568 (also known under its former D number 567), composed in June 1817 by Franz Schubert, is an early version of his Piano Sonata in E♭ major D 568.

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Sources

Gibbs, Christopher (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Piano Sonata in D-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)” is sonata fragment by Franz Schubert. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Piano, Sonata and D-flat, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1817, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1817-06. For this dossier, Piano, Sonata and D-flat is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18163164. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1817 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Piano Sonata in D-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.