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1832 · 23454 — Vienne: Ant. Diabelli et Comp. PN D. et C. No. 3537 1832. Oblong folio. Disbound. i title 2-31 i blank pp. Engraved. Edges colored in green.<br /> <br /> Foliation in manuscript in red crayon to upper right corners of rectos from "52" title to "66."<br /> <br /> Staining to inner portions of each leaf; some minor foxing and soiling. A later edition. Not in Deutsch. Hoboken 13 162. The first edition was published as "Grande Sonate" by Sauer & Leidesdorf in Vienna in 1823. <br /> <br /> "Schubert's most original contribution to the keyboard repertory is arguably his music for piano duet. Although familiar from the 18th century keyboard music for four hands was largely restricted to ephemeral pieces or utilitarian arrangements of orchestral works. Mozart invested the genre with more ambition but as with the lied it was Schubert who took a marginal genre and made it central. His earliest works for piano duet were three fantasies D1 9 48 while a modest rondo D608 from January 1818 and four polonaises D599 and a sonata D617 of Mozartian proportions composed in Zseliz during the summer of that year mark the beginning of Schubert's sustained interest in the genre." Maurice J.E. Brown Eric Sams and Robert Winter in Grove Music Online. Ant. Diabelli et Comp. [PN D. et C. No. 3537] unknown