Dude, I gotta finish a symphony, see you tomorow Last time online: *191 years ago*

"An unfinished piece of music, yet more complete than most others."

Her : Come to my house. Schubert : I have to finish a symphony. Her : My parents aren't home. Schubert :

It is unbelievable that a work like this remained isolated in someone's drawer for 40 years. It is unsettling to think that something so simple as a house fire could have removed a work of such other-worldly beauty from existence. It makes me wonder if there have been other works of art as magnificent as Schubert's 8th that were indeed removed from existence.

The second motif (1:24) actually allows you to sing "this is, the simphony, that Schubert wrote but never finished"

I love when the happy melody stops unexpectedly and tragedy falls upon us, I wonder what Schubert had in mind when he wrote that.

Son: "Dad, who is satan?" Dad: "He is the one who put ads in this masterpiece, son."

My composition teacher once told me that sometimes if you can't come up with anything else to write after you finish writing something you really like, that it is usually a sign that you are supposed to stop at that point. Maybe that is what happened to Schubert. Either way, I love this symphony the way it is.

The first theme of the second movement... so shy, so beautiful, so simple and deeply sweet to the point you cannot get tired of it.

One thing about KZfaq is one can listen to different performances. THIS is the definitive performance of this superb composition.

One of my favorite symphonies. I wonder if Schubert wrote this tragic work when he found out he had contracted the then fatal disease of syphilis. ( He was to live about five more years after his diagnosis during which time his musical output would be the most productive in his short life.) The whole mood and character of this novel work was a complete break from the other symphonies he had written up that point. There is such sadness and fear mixed with hope, resentment and memories of happier days. I can't understand why he would hide this work only to be discovered about 20 years later after his death . So sad. RIP Dear Franz.

Oh, my Lord! That first movement's probably one of the finest compositions by Schubert, much less, anybody else of his genre! It quite simply is so beyond beautiful of the most inexplicable nature that there's nothing left to do but give in and listen to the musical-paradise that it is of the utmost perfection; yes, perfection itself ---- that's neither sad nor happy, neither melodramatic nor neurotic, neither spooky nor depressing ---- but just one that draws ye in ever so graciously that ye don't even realise, ye hath forgotten about everything else and can't seem to let go; all paralysed by its sheer grace!

There is just something magical about the oboe and clarinet melody at start where the E goes to an F natural. I guess that's the beauty of harmony and the sensitivity of Schubert.

THANK YOU so much for making this public again!!! I missed it enormously while it was private, because this is my favourite rendition and I used to listen to it often. Please keep these jewels accessible to all music lovers.

8:41 - 9:21 Is this only mine favourite part or is it anyone else's? Gives me chills everytime. The greatest symphony ever written and the greatest musical climax I've ever listen to. It's so unfair he never got a chance to listen to any of his symphonies :(

The dramatic sections are breathtaking. The lyrical sections are exquisitely beautiful. Notwithstanding its shortened form, surely one of the greatest symphonic works ever written. One never grows tired of hearing it.

in case you dont understand the story behind this piece, Schubert made the first and second movements and thought they were so good he could never finish so he literally just ended without doing a third or fourth movement.

why does life have to be this hard? This is the question he asks.. with a mooring lingering passion. His love of beauty is evident. So is his sadness.

That was, without a lie, one of the best 30 minutes of my young life. The melodies, the harmonies and the orchestration were just magical and perfect !!!!

8:52 never fails to send chills down my spine... love the mysterious and suspense effect this whole orchestra work has.. miss the times where I had to analyse this beautiful piece of work in detail, its lovely

The beginning gives me goosebumps

Sorry, but this is the definitive performance. Passion, perfect intonation, and wonderful pace. Wonderful.

1 часть 0:18 ГП 1:23 ПП 2 часть 14:51 ГП 17:43 ПП

Franz Schubert:8.h-moll ,,Befejezetlen" Szimfónia D.759 1.Allegro moderato 00:00 2.Andante con moto 14:51 Drezdai Állami Zenekar Vezényel:Wolfgang Sawallisch 1967

By far the best and most profound interpretation of this work. Bravo Sawallisch & Dresden Staatskapelle Orchestra!

My music teacher made us listen to symphonies one lesson before holidays, we had been talking about symphonies for some lessons. I remembered the name of this one so I could look it up on KZfaq. We did watch a documentary about Schubert half a year later, I told her I recognised the Symphony, she didn't even know she showed it to her students. Now we learned about romantic componists and music and we again heard this symphony and I still love it so that's why I came back today. Thanks to my music teacher

Schubert thank you. You always have been and will be the musical delight of my life. You are music's essence. Thirty-one is such a short life. But what rich and infinite treasures you created.

See, I was just wondering though some Minecraft role play animatics and stumbled upon this. I guess that’s the strangest way to be introduced to a masterpiece

Imagine being such a legend that something you didn’t even finish is revered by many as one of the greatest pieces they’ve ever heard

End of the first movement, as dramatic as anything ever written, the tension and emotion of Beethoven, intensity and high strings that Dvorak uses, but without any thrashing around. Schubert's gift for melody reminds me of Keats's gift for beautiful language, and even his most dramatic passages are sublimely gorgeous.

I LOVE that you have the score there. Thank you! Such a gorgeous piece of music. When I was a kid, my parents used to play classical music every night after my bedtime. I remember this piece especially. I never told them how comforting this was for me. It created my love for classical music.

Time codes: Part 1 / 1 часть 00:01 introduction, h moll / Вступление, си минор 00:18 main batch, h moll / Главная партия, си минор 01:20 side batch, G dur / Побочная партия, соль мажор 02:00 rupture, c moll / Перелом, до минор 02:54 final batch, G dur / Заключительная партия, соль мажор 06:58 development, 1st section, e moll / Разработка, 1 раздел, ми минор 08:41 development, 2nd section, e moll / Разработка, 2 раздел, ми минор 13:41 coda, h moll / Кода, си минор Part 2 / 2 часть 14:52 main batch, E dur / Главная партия, ми мажор 17:42 side batch, cis moll / Побочная партия, до диез минор P.S.:Sorry for my bad english

Great to follow this music on the partiture! Thirty years ago I played the cello part of this; Still remember every note :-)

Girl: Come over Schubert: I Can't, i have to finish my 8th Symphony Girl: My parent's aren't home * The tittle*

When I was a freshman in high school, my teacher took this from his files collection and made us practice this song. We never played it in concert, but literally every year until my graduation he took it out randomly and had us practice sections of the song. I've always loved it since I first heard what it should have sounded like.

touch of genius. words can't describe music of this sort

I never get tired of listening to this symphony. That is the magic of classical music.

This symphony sounds so unusual.

when will he drop his next release? waiting so long for a new tape by him

What a fantastic and gourgious piece of music. Defnitley on the same level as Mozart and Beethoven.

It is truly awful that any human being should have to suffer in the way this music depicts, yet Schubert has created from his pain something so unutterably beautiful that it can lift me from the most terrible depths to a place that truly touches the divine.

Just wanted to say how much I love this recording and the piece in general. It's a little odd that something which is by definition incomplete can seem so perfectly whole. To me, the two movements speak of a turbulent personality finally coming to some form of resolution. I sometimes forget how revolutionary this symphony was for its day and I'd assume that it hailed from the latter part of the 19th century if I didn't know it was composed by Schubert. Thanks for uploading.

Thank you so much for including the orchestral score.I played in the RAF Apprentices Brass band in 1950. The then bandmaster made us practice on a wide variety of music including classical. This by Schubert is one of my favourites .Many thanks.

The intensity of this work is gigantic. I cry imagining Schubert's life, his joys and agonies.

I cant stop listen it. Its like a drug.

18:54 the descend into ultimate sorrow and hopelessness

So accept perfection, a fleeting sunrise. Elogiac melodies bounce between a emotional balance of peace and some kind pastoral landscape in Schuberts challenges. This was therapy for him

0:01 вступление 0:18 ГП 1 части 1:23 пп 14:51 ГП 2 части 17:43 пп

I'm a Bach guy, but I have to admit, Franz could write a good tune. lol

Magnifique, j'adore cette symphonie. Interprété ici avec brio

This rendition is just marvellous. Thank you for making it public again, I was already getting desperate!!

I loved playing the first clarinet part for this back in high school. Such a beautiful piece

Great comments on why this symphony is called The Unfinished. Interesting and informative. The truth is out there.

In form, unfinished, in every other aspect, complete. Franz, immortality is in your genius.

This particular piece is so enchanting , it pictures to myself life with its hardships and struggles , peaceful and tranquil moments. Schubert had concealed this work , perhaps it was to personal .

I heard this piece dozens of times. Yet even now, after I blast it on 100% on my headphones, it makes such an impact. Incredible.

Miss playing the viola part of this piece

Ive played cello for this before... absolutely beautiful

Thank you for this. This produces goosebumps over my entire body...One day I will listen to it live, it is one of these things you have to do before you die! plus I love "dancing" to it when alone in the house.. it just inspires me so much. To me it symbolises "the eternal fight of the human spirit", it brings out the fire in my soul..

What an absolute masterpiece! Possibly the greatest symphony ever written.

Esto... simplemente, me hace amar cada vez más y más la música; y la oportunidad que tengo de poder interpretar esta pieza me resulta muy emocionante. Soy violín 2, pero de todos modos se tiene que tener bastante disciplina, constancia y de hecho amor a la música para interpretarla, cualquier persona que solo toca por tocar ve las partituras de reojo y piensa 'No, esto es demasiado complicado para mi, tengo flojera, no ni que fuera tan emocionante.' Amo el hecho de que me hayan dado la oportunidad de tocar esto y no me rendiré hasta que me salga lo mejor posible. Excelente pieza, muy hermosa y con sentimiento. A veces pienso ¿Que habrá pasado por la cabeza de los compositores para hacer semejante creación? Son personas realmente admirables, lástima que esta sea la Sinfonía Inconclusa. Repito, hermosa pieza.

So wonderful!!! Great performance!! Thank you!!

We are so lucky this day we can listen to so many free music all composed by Schubert, Chopin, Mozart etc etc... Thank God for these music its free and so good.

Came here to listen this because someone rejected to goto the prom with me. This piece induce the realization of the insignificance of such an event as compared to great music.

Great piece. Trying to think which film I have seen with this in and now I remember = Minority Report!

Thank you for putting up the sheet music it is nice to read along

I never heard Sawallisch perform with such passion and commitment. Clearly this music meant something special to him .

prvi put sam ovo ccula gledajuchi RAJANOVU KCHI Dejvida Lina.... Od tada je to postalo moje tajno utoccisste...nesvakidassnja lepota tog nedovrssenog dela opominje me da nismo uzalud na ovoj planeti...

My favorite piece of music ever written 14:52

I got introduced to classical mainly through symphonic metal, X Japan's Art of Life lead me to this one, since it's based off it. Some of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard.

Musik ist fabelhaft! Besonders freut mich die Lautstärke. Nicht alle haben die besten Ohren, da Hörgeschädigt. Danke an den Hochlader. Music is great! Particularly glad I am about the volume. Not everybody has good ears because of hearing difficulties. Thanks to the uploader.

GORGEOUS. I played this on tour with my youth orchestra and I miss it so much. Such an amazing cello part. Thank you Schubert

definitively a masterpiece!

This is a fabulous interpretation.

I LOVE the development section of that first movement!! It's one of my all time favorites!! That first movement is very interesting in terms of form though. It's in sonata form, but the modulation in the exposition is to the submediant, which still works, but the development section doesn't keep the same tonic. The recap section modulates to the relative major instead of the parallel major for the second theme. Very interesting and unusual. Still one of my favorite works!! Thanks for the effort and work that went into this video!! I love following the score, because I'm working on getting a music composition degree myself!

None music genre will EVER beat the pieces of these geniuses.

I hate to, and have never been, 'that guy', but on this occasion i feel it necessary to ask the following; For what reason can anyone who listens to this, press the dislike button? I'd really like to know someones reasoning behind their decision in doing this. Is it just a troll being a troll, or do they actually dislike the Symphony?

I used to listen to this beautiful symphony while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the most holy rosary of the blessed virgin Mary. The arrangement seems to fit in an exact order of those meditations from beginning to end. There is a thread of mutual love woven throughout the piece akin to the mutual love expressed in the mysteries. I feel the unfinished ending is appropriate for the mutual love itself is unfinished, without an end.

Thank you for this - I love this symphony, and being able to follow the music as it is played is such a treat, instead of a static picture of the composer, or a landscape as with so many other music downloads. xxx

Спасибо тебе автор канала за то что даёшь слушать музыку вместе с нотами!!!

"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?" ~ Franz Schubert

I swear I heard this piece in my dream before!

Fabulous symphony, once even studying or thinking we must stop to listen.Marvelous notes.

Today is January 31, Schubert's birthday, so I have come again to this amazing work of pure genius.

I, as a mere lover of classical music (with few exceptions), have felt and thought for decades that Schubert knew in all his faculties that it would be utterly pointless and even detrimental to add anything to these two sublime studies of life's tribulations and divine rescue into renewed bliss. Bespeaks of this...

Written in the same year as Beethoven's 9th symphony. Makes you pause and think. Schubert is always being presented as the one who came after Beethoven, but by the time Beethoven put out his opus 125, Schubert already was writing his opus 759. People often say of this and that composer that he was ahead of his time, but Schubert was the only one who really was ahead of his time. Not Bach, not Mozart, not even Schönberg, even if the latter liked to think this to be true of himself. Had Schubert lived for another 30 years, he would have singe-handedly made romanticism obsolete and have ushered in an entirely new era by the 1850s. There was so much untapped potential. To think that he only began to study counterpoint a few weeks before he died. Imagine what he would achieve if he were to combine his mastery of melody and harmony with his newly acquired contrapuntal skills.

Schubert war ein IN-SICH zerissener Mann und das fühlt man in/mit jeder Note dieses einmaligen Meisterstücks. Das ist kein Stück, welches man sich an einem gemütlichen Abend "gönnt". Ich höre mir dieses beispiellose Zerwürfnis nur mit der Pistole im Mund an. Na, ob ich wohl noch ... auf zum DeLorean. Ich bin so ein toller, individueller und charmanter Kerl, ich geb mir gleich mal nen Top-Daumen - vielleicht kommt der später noch zum Einsatz.

So wunderbare Melodien hat der Wiener Komponist Franz Schubert zu Papier gebracht - herzaufwühlend. Schön! Such wonderful melodies were put on paper by the Viennese composer Franz Schubert - stirring up your heart. Awsome!

Oh my L'Manburg... Forever unfinished..

I will always associate this music with those old "Smurfs" cartoons where it has been used as background music for dramatic scenes :) There's nothing better for kids to learn some classic music through watching cartoons ;) Disney did that a lot back then with their "Silly Symphonies" too.

8:42 - 9:27 is my absolute favorite spot when we go over it during rehearsal, it just sounds so good

I heard Schubert's Unfinished for the first time in early 1970's on Australian Broadcast- ing Corporation's Asia Pacific broadcast and ever since I have been mesmerised by the subtle beauty of the piece. Schubert like Beethoven was a student of Haydn and in this piece the slow, soft and moving refrain has the beauty of Haydn and in the other vigorous sections shows the modern and strong Beethovenesque style. In a way, this piece represents the blending and inter-twining of two styles, one of the Romantic period with its emphasis on beauty and the other of the Modern period with emphasis on subjective expression of the vagaries and highs and lows of human emotions. This piece ends bringing a contentment of a great piece well-concluded without leaving any craving that a great "unfinished" piece should cause. A Schubertian all-time gem !

The Orchestra I'm in is playing this tomorrow.. I play 1st clarinet, here's hoping I do those lovely (super exposed!!) parts in the second movement justice! eeeeep....

Good story, I learned that I can actually hum this whole entire song. Its amazing, because in math class, it really helps when you are taking the longest test ever!

The first movement is amazing. The second movement even better. Peak Schubert.

This is really really good. Thank you for uploading it. I had never heard this before.

Classical music is the only genre that literally makes me cry from the beauty of the composition and intricacy of emotion, the effort put forth in this piece alone makes me extremely ashamed to be part of this generation of popular music today, the same shit over and over and over on the radio, its fucking mind numbingly boring. There needs to be a movement for classical music again, that would be wonderful

Wow, recorded in the deepest, darkest days of the Cold War in Communist Germany! I have a "Freischuetz" that was recorded in Dresden under communism that is excellent as well!

I just realized how much Bruckner must have loved this piece.

Hermosa obra. De magistral sencillez, exquisitas y delicadas ideas. Un juego entre diferentes tesituras de instrumentos, y súbitos cambios de temperamento. Como cuando de repente te embarga una idea poderosa que te quita el sosiego, pero, después, vuelve, como una mágica forma, la paz. Una obra inmortal.