Home / Music / Schubert composed his Piano Sonata D. 960 just two months before his deathMusic linernotes album music franz-schubertSchubert composed his Piano Sonata D. 960 just two months before his deathThe Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 was composed in September 1828, just two months before Schubert’s death on November 19, 1828, making it one of his final works. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesSchubert's Op. 90 Impromptus embody his late style — simple on the surface, sophisticated underneathSchubert's final piano sonata spans four movements, opening with one of the longest first movements in the repertoire.Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 8 is a three-movement work with no scherzo — darker and more concentrated than its predecessors.Schubert's Op. 90 contains four impromptus, D. 899 — some of the most beloved short-form piano works ever written.Schubert wrote 15 string quartets starting as a teenagerExploreShaker Loops' string orchestra version debuted in April 1983 at Alice Tully HallRuth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet was first performed in 1933The studio recording of Einstein on the Beach was released in 1979Arcade Fire's The Suburbs came out on August 3, 2010The Sundays' Blind was released in October 1992Previous Schubert composed his Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor while sick with syphilisNext Schoenberg's String Quartet No. 2: atonality with a soprano and a line from another planet