Symphony No. 7 (Schubert)
The Symphony in E major (D 729 ) from the summer of 1821 is one of six unfinished symphonies of Franz Schubert. Outside the German-speaking countries it is recently often counted as Schubert's Symphony No. 7.
Schubert left seven fully composed symphonies. Even the existence of the so-called incompleteness in B minor and a whole series of fragments from his earliest to late period could search many music Researchers other symphonies of Schubert. The search for the long -lost " Gmunden - Gastein " from 1825 meant that even forgery attempts have been made, for instance by Gunter Elsholz ( 1936-2004 ), which Werner Maser documented.
Unlike his other symphonic fragments a slipcase Chechen Symphony in E major is from the year 1821 in one of the first to the last bar in all four sets of complete draft. The first 110 cycles orchestrated Schubert in full score, in which he envisaged a larger cast than in his other symphonies for instrumentation. He had little need to invest in the full version, everything was ready designed. The fragment consists of the following phrases:
- Adagio - Allegro
- Andante
- Scherzo and Trio
- Allegro giusto
Schubert's brother Ferdinand sent the manuscript in 1846 to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who had brought in 1839 Schubert's Great Symphony in C major D 944 for the premiere, had transferred the score of Robert Schumann from Vienna to Leipzig. However, to a realization by Mendelssohn came just as by Arthur Sullivan and Johannes Brahms.
First introduced in 1881 the English composer John Francis Barnett a performable version of the symphony here, which premiered on May 5, 1883 Crystal Palace in London and by Breitkopf & Härtel published as Piano for four hands. The scores of this Act in 1936 destroyed in the fire of the Crystal Palace and 1943 in the destruction of the publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 1934 was an arrangement by Felix Weingartner. More recently, the symphony was a wider public again in the version completed by Brian Newbould (1982). This is considered the date werktreueste version because Newbould unlike Weingartner on interventions such as Cuts waived.
The autograph is in the Royal College of Music in London, Call Number: MS. 586
Recordings or phonograms
- Schubert: Symphony No.. 7 Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Franz Litschauer (recording 1952) Naxos 9.80641
- Franz Schubert: Symphony in E- flat major D 729 Symphonic Fragments D. 615, 708a, 936a. Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Heinz Rogner ( 1977/1979 ). Berlin Classics 8530668
- Felix Weingartner: Violin Concerto in G major, Op 52; Schubert / Weingartner: Symphony in E major D. 729 Albrecht Breuninger (violin), SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, Alun Francis ( 2007) CPO 6614805
Replaced by Brian Newbould:
- Schubert: The 10 Symphonies. Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, 6 CD Set ( 1982-84 ), PHILIPS, 470886-2.
- Schubert: Symphony No.7 in E, D. 729 Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gabriel Chmura (1988 ) Koch Schwann 311 012 H1.