Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Featuring

Marco Albrizio
Franz Schubert

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Performer Biography

Marco Albrizio has recorded complete cycles of Mozart's sonatas and Schubert's impromptus for Vatican Radio, and has also curated musicological broadcasts.

Composer Biography

Franz Schubert composed twenty piano sonatas and a single initial movement between 1814 and 1828, but only completed eleven of them.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Schubert's compositional struggle reflects the aesthetic transition from the Classical style of Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic style of Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann.

Performer Biography

Marco Albrizio, the pianist on this album, graduated with honors from the Conservatory of S. Cecilia and has won numerous national and international competitions.

Compositional Technique

Schubert represents a unique blend of small and large musical forms, giving narrative character to large structures like Sonatas and Symphonies, and developing smaller forms in a sonata-like manner.

Composition History

Schubert's last three Sonatas (D 959, D 959 in C minor, and D 960) were composed under a single creative impulse in September 1828 and dedicated to pianist Johann Nepomuk Hummel.