Schubert: String Trio, D.581

Introduction

Franz Schubert wrote three string trios, all of them in the key of B-flat major. From the first of these, D 111A, a trio Schubert wrote in 1814, only a few measures are extant. The string trio D 471 consists of a completed first movement and an incomplete second movement, composed in 1816. The last of these trios, D 581, was completed in four movements, exists in two versions and was composed in 1817.

String Trio in B-flat major, D 581

Schubert wrote this string trio in September 1817, and it consists of four movements. The Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe published this trio in 1897 as No. 5 in Serie XXI: Supplement, Volume 1. Both versions of this string trio were published in Series VI, Volume 6 of the New Schubert Edition in 1981.

Movements

1. Allegro moderato, 4/4
2. Andante, 6/8
3. Menuetto: allegretto, 3/4
4. Rondo: allegretto, 2/4