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Sonatas, duos and fantasies by Franz Schubert

include all works for solo piano by Franz Schubert, except separate dances

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Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ18163659 ↗
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Sonatas, duos and fantasies by Franz Schubert include all works for solo piano by Franz Schubert, except separate dances. They also include a number of works for two players: piano four hands, or piano and a string instrument (violin, arpeggione).

Sonatas for piano solo

Twenty-four extant sonatas and sonata fragments are listed in the 1978 version of the Deutsch catalogue:

D. 154, Piano Sonata in E major (1815, fragment; similarity with the first movement of the Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157)

I. Allegro (fragment)

D. 157, Piano Sonata in E major (1815, unfinished – first three movements are extant)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

II. Andante

III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace – Trio

D. 279, Piano Sonata in C major (1815, unfinished – first three movements are extant; the Allegretto in C major, D. 346 fragment is probably the fourth movement)

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante

III. Menuetto. Allegro vivace – Trio

IV. Allegretto (D. 346, fragment)

D. 459, Piano Sonata in E major (1816, in 2 movements; also paired with D. 459A to have a five movement sonata or five piano pieces "Fünf Klavierstücke")

I. Allegro moderato

II. Scherzo. Allegro

D. 459A, Three piano pieces "Drei Klavierstücke" (1816?, also paired with D. 459 to have a five movement sonata or five piano pieces "Fünf Klavierstücke"

III. Adagio

IV. Scherzo. Allegro – Trio. Più tardo

V. Allegro patetico

D. 537, Piano Sonata in A minor (1817, first published as Op. posth. 164)

I. Allegro ma non troppo

II. Allegretto quasi andantino

III. Allegro vivace

D. 557, Piano Sonata in A♭ major (1817; there is not complete certainty that the third movement, in E♭ major, is the Finale of the work)

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante

III. Allegro

D. 566, Piano Sonata in E minor (1817, unfinished?

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