Franz Schubert - Sinfonía No.8 "Inconclusa": Mov.1 Allegro moderato [Stokowski] Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7, in accordance with the Neue Schubert …More
Franz Schubert - Sinfonía No.8 "Inconclusa": Mov.1 Allegro moderato [Stokowski]
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7, in accordance with the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe), commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" (German: Unvollendete), D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives. It has long been theorized that Schubert may have sketched a finale which instead became the big B minor entr'acte from his incidental music to Rosamunde, but all the evidence for this is circumstantial. One possible reason for Schubert's leaving the symphony incomplete is the predominance of the same meter (three-in-a-bar). The first movement is in 3/4, the second in 3/8 and the third (an incomplete scherzo) also in 3/4. Three consecutive movements in basically the same meter rarely occur in symphonies, sonatas or chamber works of the great Viennese composers. Haydn's Farewell Symphony has been cited as a notable exception; but its finale, though ending with a 3/8 Andante in which all the instruments drop out one by one leaving two duetting solo violinists ending the work in F-sharp major, starts with an orthodox sonata-allegro in the tonic F-sharp minor in common (i.e., duple) time transitioning after the recapitulation to the unorthodox extended slow 3/8 "Farewell" coda in modified sonata
Franz Schubert, compositor Mov.1 Allegro moderato, Sinfonía No.8 en Si menor, D.759 "Inconclusa" Filarmónica de Londres dirigida por Leopold Stokowski 08/Septiembre/1969 Fairfield Hall,
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7, in accordance with the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe), commonly known as the "Unfinished Symphony" (German: Unvollendete), D.759, was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives. It has long been theorized that Schubert may have sketched a finale which instead became the big B minor entr'acte from his incidental music to Rosamunde, but all the evidence for this is circumstantial. One possible reason for Schubert's leaving the symphony incomplete is the predominance of the same meter (three-in-a-bar). The first movement is in 3/4, the second in 3/8 and the third (an incomplete scherzo) also in 3/4. Three consecutive movements in basically the same meter rarely occur in symphonies, sonatas or chamber works of the great Viennese composers. Haydn's Farewell Symphony has been cited as a notable exception; but its finale, though ending with a 3/8 Andante in which all the instruments drop out one by one leaving two duetting solo violinists ending the work in F-sharp major, starts with an orthodox sonata-allegro in the tonic F-sharp minor in common (i.e., duple) time transitioning after the recapitulation to the unorthodox extended slow 3/8 "Farewell" coda in modified sonata
Franz Schubert, compositor Mov.1 Allegro moderato, Sinfonía No.8 en Si menor, D.759 "Inconclusa" Filarmónica de Londres dirigida por Leopold Stokowski 08/Septiembre/1969 Fairfield Hall,