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The Documentary: Soul Music: Schubert’s B-Flat Piano Sonata D960

Franz Peter Schubert, (Vienna 1797-1828)

13/11/2019 GMT

Schubert’s B-Flat Piano Sonata D960

Soul Music

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Soul Music, Schubert’s B-Flat Piano Sonata D960

How Schubert's B-Flat Piano Sonata D960 has shaped the lives of three remarkable pianists

How Schubert's B-Flat Piano Sonata D960 has shaped the lives of three remarkable pianists.

The B-Flat Piano Sonata D960, which Schubert completed two months before his death, in 1828, is a vast and complex work. It is the last of a triptych of piano sonatas that Schubert wrote, possibly in response to the death of his hero Beethoven the year before. Schubert had been a pallbearer at Beethoven’s funeral.
 
In this programme, pianists Imogen Cooper, Steven Osborne and James Lisney consider what it is like to play this work. And Andrea Avery and Pamela Rose describe ways in which this sonata has marked and shaped their lives.

(Photo: Portrait of Franz Peter Schubert (Vienna, 1797-1828), Austrian composer. Credit: DEA/A. Dagli Orti/De Agostini/Getty Images)

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People share stories about music that has changed their lives.

Music brings meaning to our lives. From first breath to last rites music is there, helping us to deal with our emotions and reflect on our experiences. Be it solace or celebration, grief, love, lost youth or contented aging, we find ourselves reflected in the music we love and share. 
 
In Soul Music we take a song and talk to people for whom the song has a special place in their lives.

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