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The '''Piano Sonata in A minor, {{D.}} 537''', of [[Franz Schubert]] is a sonata for solo piano, composed in March [[1817 in music|1817]].
==Movements==
'''I. Allegro ma non troppo'''
[[A minor]]. In [[sonata form]]. The exposition modulates to the [[submediant]], [[F major]], rather than to the usual [[mediant]], [[C major]]. The recapitulation begins in the [[subdominant]], [[D minor]], and most of the recapitulation's second group is in [[A major]] before a short coda returns to the minor mode for the movement's ending.
'''II. Allegretto quasi andantino'''
[[E major]]. A five-part rondo with an unconventional key scheme as follows:
A (E major) → B (C major) → A (F major) → C (D minor) → A (E major)
Schubert also composes brief transitions at the ends of each episode—that between the B section and the medial A section features a small amount of the B section's material in F major (the medial A section's key), while that between the C section and the final A section modulates from the C section's D minor up a tone to E minor, and then sits on its dominant for a few measures before the return to the movement's tonic key with the final A section. The movement ends with a short coda that is completely diatonic.
'''III. Allegro vivace'''
A minor. In sonata form without development. The exposition begins with A minor and modulates to E major. The recapitulation begins in E minor and moves to A major, in which the movement ends.<ref name=schubert>{{cite book |last=Newbould |first=Brian |year=1999 |title=Schubert: The Music and the Man |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Faikq3F8VYC |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520219571 |page=100}}</ref>
The work takes approximately 20 minutes to perform.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}  Daniel Coren has summarised the nature of the recapitulation in the last movement of this sonata.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Coren | first=Daniel | title=Ambiguity in Schubert's Recapitulations | journal=The Musical Quarterly | volume=LX | issue=4 | pages=568–582 | date=1974 | doi=10.1093/mq/LX.4.568}}</ref>  Harald Krebs has noted that Schubert reworked the opening of the second movement of the D. 537 sonata into the opening theme of the finale of the [[Schubert's last sonatas#Sonata in A major, D. 959|A major piano sonata, D. 959]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Krebs | first=Harald | title=Review of Charles Fisk's ''Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas'' | journal=Music Theory Spectrum | volume=25 | issue=2 | pages=388–400 | date=Autumn 2003 | doi=10.1525/mts.2003.25.2.388}}</ref>
==In popular culture==
The piano sonata is featured in the 1985 film adaptation of [[E. M. Forster]]'s ''[[A Room with a View (1985 film)|A Room with a View]]'', as protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is practicing piano.
==Notes==
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==References==
* Tirimo, Martino. ''Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas.'' Vienna: Wiener Urtext Edition, 1997.
== External links ==
* {{IMSLP2|work=Piano Sonata D.537 (Schubert, Franz)|cname=Piano Sonata D. 537}}
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