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16 SCHUBERT_ PIANO SONATAS D845 & D850 Euphoria is the prevailing sentiment throughout the Sonata D850 in Dmajor. One only has to read Schubert’s accounts to his brother Ferdinand of his hikes in the Salzburg region in the summer of 1825 to understand that here he is transposing and sublimating them in his music. ‘One may see the mountain peaks of the Salzburg valley, just then covered with snow. . . . The Wallersee spreads its bright blue-green waters . . . and animates this delightful landscape most gloriously. . . . The mountains rise higher and higher, and especially the legendary Untersberg rises as if by magic among the others. . . . We climbed the Nonnberg, which . . . affords the finest of views, for one overlooks the inner Salzburg valley from there. . . . Imagine a garden several miles in extent . . . imaginemeadows and fields like somany carpets of the finest colours, then themagnificent pastures wrapped around them like ribbons; and, finally, avenues of gigantic trees, all enclosed as far as the eye can see by ranges of the highest mountains, as if they were the guardians of this heavenly valley . . .’