Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

wrote three

string trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. From at least the 19th century on, the term "string trio" with otherwise unspecified instrumentation normally refers to the combination violin, viola and cello ...

s, all of them in the key of

B-flat major B-flat major is a major scale based on B, with pitches B, C, D, E, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two flats. Its relative minor is G minor and its parallel minor is B-flat minor. The B-flat major scale is: Changes needed for ...

. From the first of these, 111A, a trio Schubert wrote in 1814, only a few measures are extant.

Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pu ...

, with revisions by

Werner Aderhold Werner Aderhold (4 November 1937 – 15 February 2021) was a German musicologist. Life Born in Dortmund, Aderhold was a long-time collaborator of the New Schubert Edition at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. Initially, he contributed ...

and others.
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New Schubert Edition Franz Schubert (1797–1828): New Edition of the Complete Works (), commonly known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), or, in (NSA), is a complete edition of Franz Schubert's works, which started in 1956 and is scheduled to conclude in 2027.

, Series VIII: Supplement, Volume 4). Kassel:

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, 1978. ISMN 9790006305148 — , Nos. 111A (p. 79), 471 (p. 278) and 581 (p. 338) The string trio D 471 consists of a completed first movement and an incomplete second movement, composed in

1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locati ...

Series VI, Volume 6: ''Franz Schubert: String Trios''
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, 1981 The last of these trios, D 581, was completed in four movements, exists in two versions and was composed in

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String Trio in B-flat major, D 111A

A few bars of an Allegro movement is all that is left of the string trio D 111A, composed in September 1814. The fragment is printed in the

String Trio in B-flat major, D 471

Schubert started composing this piece in September 1816, but only finished the first movement. In 1890, this movement was the only content of Series VI, ''Trio für Streichinstrument'' of the

Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe Franz Schubert's Works: Complete and Authoritative Edition (), also known as the Collected Edition, is a late 19th-century publication of Franz Schubert's compositions.Deutsch 1951, p. xiii The publication is also known as the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe ...

, and was as such republished by Dover Editions in 1965. The second unfinished movement was first published in 1897, in the first volume of the Revisionsbericht of the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe.

Movements

String Trio in B-flat major, D 581

Schubert wrote this string trio in September 1817, and it consists of four movements. The

published this trio in 1897 as No. 5 in Serie XXI: Supplement, Volume 1.

Franz Schubert's Werke Franz Schubert's Works: Complete and Authoritative Edition (), also known as the Collected Edition, is a late 19th-century publication of Franz Schubert's compositions.Deutsch 1951, p. xiii The publication is also known as the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe ...

. Serie XXI: Supplement, Volume 1, No. 5: '' Trio für Violine, Viola und Violoncell'', edited by

Eusebius Mandyczewski Eusebius Mandyczewski (, ; 18 August 1857, in Molodiia – 13 August 1929, in Vienna) was a Romanian musicologist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He was an author of numerous musical works and is highly regarded within Austrian, Romanian a ...

. Leipzig:

Breitkopf & Härtel Breitkopf & Härtel () is a German Music publisher, music publishing house. Founded in 1719 in Leipzig by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, it is the world's oldest music publisher. Overview The catalogue contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works ...

, 1897. Plate F.S. 974. Reprinted: New York: Dover Publications, 1965, and 1973: Both versions of this string trio were published in Series VI, Volume 6 of the

in 1981.

Movements

References

External links

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