This is the second movement from Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major, D.959, one of the final three sonatas he composed shortly before his death. It was not published until 10 years after he died. 
This second movement is marked Andantino, indicating a somewhat slow tempo. It begins with a poignant, even lamenting melody. The middle section is agitated and relatively harsh. This leads to a brief serene interlude that then returns to the original melody, now transformed to be less nostalgic and more foreboding.

Franz Schubert - 2nd movement from Piano Sonata in A major, D.959

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As the river of time flows, painful memories and the shadows of the past are gradually washed away, their sharp edges softened by the steady current of life, until they finally dissolve into the calm waters of the present, making room for new hopes and opportunities to emerge, like flowers blooming on the shore, reminding us that even the most difficult experiences can be transformed into something beautiful and full of possibilities.

From "ARTIFACTS" (2024)

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Washed away

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Legacy Broken is a cinematic orchestral concept album that explores the psychological weight of legacy, family, and emotional silence. Blending restrained elegance with hypnotic minimalism, each track unfolds like a room in a haunted memory palace—echoes of conversations, legal inheritances, betrayals, and unresolved grief.

Muted strings, fractured piano motifs, trembling horns, and emotionally conflicted harmonic structures form a sonic language of unspoken tension and decaying tradition. The arrangements resist resolution, allowing silence, repetition, and space to carry as much meaning as melody.

This album is not just a score — it’s a portrait of inheritance, power, and the long shadows of memory. The finale song "Inheritance of Silence" concludes with a vocalized song about empty love, wealth and social responsibility. 

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Charles Finnegan was born in the United States, but at the age of four months, he took his family to England where he lived for the next 15 years. After the deaths of his parents in an auto crash, he returned to America to live with his mother's family. At Universities both in the US and in England, he earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctorate in mathematics. Throughout his life he expressed a deep devotion to music, and he became a fine pianist. In July of 2015, after enduring nearly two years that included several surgeries and multiple other treatments for metastatic pancreatic cancer, Charlie died. He was 25 years old.

Franz Schubert - 2nd movement from Piano Sonata in A major, D.959

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