Talk:Octet (Schubert)

Removed material about symphony no 7
I removed the following:
 * Both of the chamber music compositions being complete in themselves, and of an exceptionally "symphonic" character, it was further supposed that Schubert never started the score for symphonic orchestra, or abandoned drafts in such sense in an early stage. The fact that many scholars numbered Schubert's next symphony No. 8, appeared nonetheless to express some hope to recover the full score of this 1824 symphony - sometimes referred to as the 'Gastein Symphony' - one day. (However, this numbering ignored the existence of the structurally complete but only partly scored Symphony in E which is nowadays accepted as No.7 in the Schubert symphonic canon.) It is now known that Schubert was in fact referring to starting work on the symphony that became No. 9. Schubert's letter of 31 March 1824 to his friend Leopold Kupelwieser states explicitly both (a) that he has completed the Octet and (b) that he "intend[ed] to pave my way towards a grand symphony in that manner", which seems a definitive statement that the octet and any as-yet-unwritten symphony would be unrelated except by their "grand" manner.

While interesting, it doesn't really have much relevance to the Octet. See also List of compositions by Franz_Schubert. (I left in the first part mentioning that the "grand symphony" might have been the Octet. Magicpiano (talk) 17:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)