Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
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Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759, commonly known as the Unfinished Symphony, is a musical composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements—though he lived fo
Third movement, first page, facsimile, 1885, in J. R. von Herbeck's biography
Watercolour of Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder (1825)
Franz Schubert Memorial in Vienna. Schubert lived here in 1822–23 with his friend Franz von Schober and wrote the Unfinished Symphony.
Rosamunde
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Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern is a play by Helmina von Chézy, which is primarily remembered for the incidental music which Franz Schubert composed for it. Music and play premiered in Vienna's Theater
Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)
…musicologists, including Brian Newbould, that Schubert may have sketched a finale that instead became the big B minor entr'acte from his incidental music to Rosamunde, but all evidence for this is circumstantial. One possible reason for Schubert's leaving the symphony incomplete is the predominance of the same meter…
Franz Schubert