The single fragmentary movement is in C-sharp minor and is in sonata form, breaking off at the end of the exposition. Schubert uses a three-key exposition, with a first subject group in the tonic and then a second subject group, first in E major (the relative major) and then G-sharp major (the dominant major). Unusually, the second subject group is over four times as long as the first.

Date of composition 1819 (incomplete)
First published 1897, Breitkopf & Härtel
Type Sonata
Tonality C-sharp Minor
Catalogue D 655
Instruments Piano
Autotranslations beta Franz Schubert: Sonate pour piano n°12 en do dièse mineur, D 655 "Allegro in C♯ minor"
Franz Schubert: Sonata per pianoforte n. 12 in do diesis minore, D 655 "Allegro in C♯ minor"
Franz Schubert: Sonate Nr. 12 für Klavier cis-moll, D 655 "Allegro in C♯ minor"