Schubert - Symphonie Nr. 7 for orchestra

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Mario Venzago's addition to Franz Schubert's fragmentary preserved Symphony in B minor opposes a legendary assumption that has haunted music historians for almost 200 years: Schubert left behind a constitutively "unfinished" symphony that takes the rank of the "last words" of the composer who died at an early age. Various sources show Schubert's plans for the third and fourth movements of the symphony. The Scherzo can be reconstructed from the score and the beginning of the fair manuscript. Venzago finds the lost fourth movement integrated into the incidental music for "Rosamunde" and leads it back into a symphony finale with a cyclical ending. In the first and second movements, Venzago corrects dynamics and articulation in a musically practical examination of the source material.