Why Is Schubert's Symphony Unfinished?

So this all begs the question: Why is the symphony unfinished? The short answer is that no one knows, but of course there are many theories. The infamously absent-minded composer was badly organized so he did finish it (mostly), he just never put the paperwork together.

Who finished the Unfinished Symphony?

… time, destined to obscurity: the Symphony in B Minor (Unfinished), which speaks from Schubert's heart. Two movements and a half-finished scherzo were completed in October and November 1822. In November of the same year Schubert composed a piano fantasia in which the variations are on a theme from his song…

What happened to Schubert's Seventh symphony?

7 is the name given to a four-movement symphony in E major (D 729) drafted by Franz Schubert in August 1821. ... Schubert seems to have laid the symphony aside in order to work on his opera Alfonso und Estrella, and never returned to it.

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