Composer
Franz Schubert
1797–1828
7,293 works in the index
- Era
- Romantic
- Nationality
- Archduchy of Austria
- Born in
- Himmelpfortgrund
Schubert wrote over six hundred songs before dying at thirty-one, and it is the songs that dominate this catalogue. If you sing, this is the central repertoire; if you accompany, the piano parts are full partners rather than support, and considerably harder than they sound.
The song cycles — Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise, Schwanengesang — are published complete and in high, medium and low keys. Buying the wrong transposition is the standard mistake here, because the cycles sit in a range that punishes guessing.
For pianists the Impromptus and Moments musicaux are the accessible way in, and the four-hand duets are among the best music written for two people at one instrument. The late sonatas are enormous and are not a place to start.
Catalogue
Works page 30 of 152
Waltz in A flat (Funeral Waltz), D 365/op. 9, no. 2
2. Andantino
Moments Musicaux, D 780/op. 94
5. Allegro vivace
No. 4, in D
Sonata In E Major, D 154 (Unfinished) - Appendix
1. Moderato
No. 1, in D
No. 2, in A
Rondo In C Major, D 309A (Fragment) - Appendix
Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished"), First Movement Excerpt
Waltz in A flat, D 365/op. 9, no. 6
No. 8, in A Flat Minor
Noble Waltz in A Minor, D 969/op. 77, no. 9
Waltz in B, D 145/op. 18, no. 2
Waltz in A flat, D 365/op. 9, no. 1
No. 5, in B Minor
Waltz in A flat, D 365/op. 9, no. 3
Allegro In F# Minor, D 570 - Appendix
Impromptu in E flat, D. 899/op. 90, no. 2
German Dance in B flat, D 783/op. 33, no. 7
Waltz in A Major
German Dance in C, D 783/op. 33, no. 9
No. 9, in B
Sonata In B Major, D 575 (Sketch) - Appendix
No. 6, in G sharp Minor
3. Allegretto moderato
Scherzo In D Major, D 570
Sonata In F# Minor, D 571 - Appendix
Traditional Songs
Landler in B Flat Major
Twelve Noble Waltzes, D 969, op. 77
Noble Waltz in C, D 969/op. 77, no. 11
No. 7, in A flat
Impromptu in A flat, D 935/op. 142, no. 2
No. 11, in A Flat
Noble Waltz in G, D 969/op. 77, no. 4
No. 10, in B
Sonata In E Minor, D 566 (First Version Of First Movement) - Appendix
Moment musical, op. 94, no. 2 D 780
"Fantasy in C (The Wanderer), Op. 15, D. 760"
An Sylvia (To Sylvia), D. 891
Seligkeit (Heavenly Bliss), D. 433)
No. 3, in D
Noble Waltz in C, D 969/op. 77, no. 1
No. 12, in E
Scherzo in B flat, D 593
Noble Waltz in E, D 969/op. 77, no. 7
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