Franz Schubert’s second of two completed piano trios, D. 929, dates from 1827 and was played at the first and only public concert of Schubert’s compositions during his lifetime.
Schubert spent the majority of his brief life writing and performing music within the intimate company of family and friends. Almost entirely without patrons, commissions nor aristocratic associations, he flourished within a small, cultured middle-class Viennese community where the majority of his music would remain unknown to the larger world until after his death.
Schubert wrote a huge amount of music that included over six-hundred songs, numerous piano works for two and four hands, and a sizable canon of chamber music.
In his final decade, Schubert produced a mature series of highly original chamber music that ranks among the greatest ever created.
Here is the Piano trio #2 for your enjoyment:
