Schubert : Symphony No.8 in B minor, 'Unfinished'

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[liblub94]

"Schubert became desperately ill after writing the first two movement. Perhaps he didn't know how to finish it, or because he associated the symphony to his illness, Schubert didn't complete it but went on to write his ninth symphony instead."

[arnoldxonpu]

Schubert is amazing, he did too much wonderful music to die at a very very young age... :3

[monkeymansunshine]

sounds like the Band of Brother's theme song was inspired by this song

[routeoz02]

@monkeymansunshine Nah...the Band of Brothers theme is a piece [The Magic Flute] by Mozart

[007BarneyStinson]

How I Met Your Mother Ep. 6-03 "Unfinished" Awesome!

[JiveDadson]

This is the second movement.

[MuseDuCafe]

Ah, Kiddies. "Classical" upper case "C" refers to the era: "classical" lower case "c'" refers to all 'western art music' including stuff on which the laserjet ink is just now drying..... Just like "Catholic" is the religion and "catholic" is the general meaning of the word. Great piece, torso or not; beats the pants off of all Salieri, leaves (imho) all Bruckner in the dust, and endless other comparitives meaning... super.

[pelafustanes]

@MuseDuCafe What does "Kiddies" with upper case "K" mean?

[MuseDuCafe]

@pelafustanes I should have aimed my comment more pointedly toward TheEvilEmporerBunny's petty pedant comment, "Ironically, this isn't classical music. It's romantic era music." There are idiotic comments on links often enough, and easy enough to ignore. I fail miserably in remaining as detached from the sophomoric ones delivered from a delusional pedestal. However, this is a very public forum with no qualifications or prerequisites needed to join....

Best regards.

[pelafustanes]

@MuseDuCafe Reading comments in youtube, a quick way to lose faith in humanity!

[MuseDuCafe]

@pelafustanes AGREED! I need to back away from the computer at times and get out more :-)

[PennyDreadful1]

@MuseDuCafe Excuse me but is not western art music the preferred term?

[ugoodHomeBoy]

@MuseDuCafe

pseudo-intellectual

[MuseDuCafe]

@ugoodHomeBoy Neither - boy, what you're doing here is the equivilent of picking your nose, and about as interesting.

[Dominating9999]

Assignment done. Thank you Schubert

[ashtracold]

so many paralells in beethoven's and schubert's lives! both last symphony remained unfinished

[Cellogamer]

erm.... 2nd movement

[AndersonDE7]

My mother, who was a professional musician born in 1915, always told me as a child that this was the most beautiful music ever composed. Almost a century after her birth, I cannot disagree. Thank you, Mom.

[osoialncuiq]

I love classical music, but this surely wasn't designed for speakers. Half of it was literally below my hearing threshold, and then the blasts shake the whole house.

[2xtrbo]

123 . . . . 123 . . . .

[TheEvilEmporerBunny]

Ironically, this isn't classical music. It's romantic era music.

[PatrickDocmanov92]

@TheEvilEmporerBunny

This just made my day ! Nice one !

[annefrankisaho]

@TheEvilEmporerBunny

Baroque era, classical era, romantic era, modern era, etc. all fall under the general umbrella term of "classical". Philip Glass is even classical, all opinions about him aside.

[TheEvilEmporerBunny]

@annefrankisaho

Generally, when someone says "Classical", they are referring to the Greek era of classical culture.

Generally, when someone says "Classical Music", they are referring to the classical era of modern music.

Generally, when someone says "Classical Music Only" and plays a Romantic era piece, it is generally ironic.

[annefrankisaho]

@TheEvilEmporerBunny

If we're going to get pedantic, that's not really ironic.

[JulsterIsCoolster]

@annefrankisaho I love you.

[mightyafrowhitey]

@TheEvilEmporerBunny No, atually when someone says "Classical" music they're referring to the Classical era of modern music. There is a difference between classical music and the Classical era of music.

[TheEvilEmporerBunny]

@mightyafrowhitey No, I'm pretty sure my pretentious speculation is better than your pretentious speculation.

[mightyafrowhitey]

@TheEvilEmporerBunny Sure dude, whatever you wanna think :)

[sidewinderxx]

Can anyone give me tips on appreciating this piece? I'm seeing the Vienna Philharmonic play it later and keen to be passionate about it first!

Aside from just listening to it over and over of course.. which is gonna happen..

[BaboonBassoon]

who is this performed by?

[Triosfrios]

His ninth symphony is incredibly beautiful as well. The scherzo movement has a section that is perhaps one of the most beutiful pieces of music i've ever heard.

[thatsamazing1234]

Schubert: So soft-spoken

so brilliant

[muntoonxt]

Imagine if it were actually "finished".

[Tdgonline]

@muntoonxt I believe I read that Schubert left sketches for a final movement? So I wonder if anyone has ever taken them to complete the whole movement?

[zachsmith88]

@Tdgonline Somebody has actually tried to do this. My college orchestra played the "entire" symphony one year and it included the movements that were unfinished, but these were interperated by another composer.

[WarlordLuvzMCR]

So beautiful?

[CjjperkDDR]

AWESOME

[dedissimo]

Don't feed the troll, please.

[BARCA882]

i hate this shit,, fuck its so gay im only listening to this for class

[barneyonwatch]

@BARCA882 your a fucking idiot you probably listen to lil wayne and drake or some stupid shit ike that

[waptrix]

Parece que as "coisas" inacabadas tem uma aura especial que permite o ouvinte arrogar-se a vinculá-la com outras experiências

[AgApE010]

I love to listen to music like this in between my study sessions. After I read a chapter or a section of a chapter and feel like taking a short break, I turn on some of this music instead of the TV or Facebook. It is so refreshing and I always come back to my readings rejuvenated and read to take on another chapter.

[andreww1212]

@AgApE010 Same here! The only music I listen to when doing school work or anything else important. It's like cleansing from all of the disruptive media out there.

[Davanita]

This piece of one of my first music related memories, that memory and this piece have shaped my taste and creativity my entire life. I owe a lot to Mr. Schubert.

[BigGermanBassoonist]

I think we can agree that nobody can be quite sure of the reason Franz Schubert never finished his 8th Symphony.

I also think we can agree that the two movements that do exist are more than enough to make up for the two that do not, particularly those who have performed it.

[muntoonxt]

@BigGermanBassoonist He died.

[PinguFanz]

This song was in a Pingu episode "Pingu's Parents go to a Concert"

[rocath69]

@The Soken123

It was not unfinished because he died. He wrote an entire symphony after this before he died. Some speculate that it was because the first two movements were in triple time. SInce the third movement was traditionally always in 3 time, this means that there would have been three in a row. Of the Viennese Masters only a few exceptions had three consecutive movements appear in the same meter. Perhaps Schubert intimidated himself into abandoning the work.

[absoluutrecords]

@rocath69 or perhaps he had done all he could do with it at the time and decided to work on another peice i make music myself and always find from time to time when i make a really good song i never complete it right away iam always continuously working on diffrent songs and come back to it when i feel its necessary, i always find it easyer to start songs then to finish them.

[TheSoken123]

I wonder what will the 2nd and 3rd movement be if he hadn't die unfortunately.

[Kessler1996]

@SKTroop979 Thank you.

[Liberaljamoke]

The perfect piece to listen to during a snow storm.

[NamikazeH]

I find it ironic that this symphony is thought to be "unfinished", and when I download this, the download stopped around the end, and it is (double) literally unfinished.

[JRabba1995]

the best symphony is symphony of destruction, go and check it out if dont know it

[kujbitomika]

this is my favourite piece ever!

[Kessler1996]

No, dear sir/ madam, it wasn't a "Wikipedia copy/ paste", but something called creativity.

[Kessler1996]

I love the way that this unspeakably, monumentally, stunningly beautiful composition was used in the opening of Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi crime film 'Minority Report'.

It was played as John Anderton's (Tom Cruise) favourite piece of music.

Terrific!

[SKTroop979]

@Kessler1996 Oh look at that, no one gives a crap. Nerd lolfail

[lennic95]

Apparently my mum conducted this in her conducting days...

[Maz9ma]

Thanks I will play Schubert again ,I love this Symphony..Greetings

[MatthewJWWilliams]

I am learning to play this on my violin. Heheh.

[Dogaradodia]

Unfinished. Because it lingers. It never stops spinning in my head.

[simplybornhuman]

song from the minorty report multitouch police headquarters pc

[bassandbud]

I FUCKIN LOVE SCHUBERT!!!!!!!!!



[TheHISTORICALChannel]

Omg! this is breathtaking!

[JohnnyNorfolk]

Great piece.

[ChrissysVideokids]

Very good melody! Masterpiece from Schubert!!!

[marabestani]

This is not Symphony no 8 in B minor.

[lorenzarthur91]

@marabestani

yes, it is :), the second movement is in E major.

[marabestani]

@lorenzarthur91

Thank you, You'r right.

[V19torrent]

maybe he didnt want to finish it... like leaving the piece unfinished as an artistic touch.

[scrambledpenis]

thanks for posting!

[kitamuragenji]

I had never lisitened so beautiful music like this.

[sheshmanipandey]

whoever says he didnt know how to finish it, is very wrong , and ignorant of the real fact of the piece history......anyway...... it is perfect as it is !!!!

[sheshmanipandey]

whoever says he didnt know how to finish it, is very wrong , and ignorant of the real fact of the piece history......anyway...... it is perfect as it is !!!!

[paradoxicus]

Cualquier obra inacabada es realmente asombrosa,casi,como la vida misma.

[markssite]

He left it unfinished so many years later people would fight over it on youtube.

[abdul7591]

@markssite That was classic! LOL!

[paradoxicus]

La belleza no conoce de razones.

[marcusantonius90]

This symphony is synonimous with Mozart's 40th and Tchaikovsky's 6th - a kind of requiem, as has been pointed out. Maybe Schubert knew he was fatally ill by the time he wrote it.

[mischonko]

Other reason is - it got lost... Which I believe...

[mddotcom100]

I was in the beleiving that Schubert died before finishing it...

[thexsocialxmop]

@mischonko

Nice Wikipedia copy/paste.

[javierleonenriquez]

i think this symphony was his own kind of requiem. it´s strange but in both movements i see a man waiting for his own death, remembering how beautiful life was and how terrifying future is. it´s simply unbelievable that a single man can take music like this from his mind. love schubert

[pugdogmom]

you said this beautifully and i think you are right and when he wrote Ave Maria, the most beautiful music ever written...

[blueberrylesbian]

@javierleonenriquez Aren't you underestimating mankind a little?

[athanasi]

urmm..

he the most plausible explanation is that he didn't "finish" it, because in his feelings, this symphony is already finished

[rustyflower09]

he didnt finish it because he didnt really like it that much so he put it away and forgot about it. then later after he died some dude was rooting through his stuff and found it and was like WHOA!!!!! so....yeah.

[javierleonenriquez]

funny explanation. you imagine yourself in schubert´s place, and suddenly you look in a folder and start to read it until your bones crash and your brain goes up to heaven to say "son of a BITCH! why damn you didn´t finish it, you lazy motherfucker?!" muajaja great.

[AgatheLtb]

Schubert wrote the first two movements of a symphony to a friend. Then forgot (had not the time, died in his 32nd year) to write the two others. There is a fantastic performance of Ievgeny Mravinski at Moscow on April 24th 1959 (CD Praga PRD/DSD 350 053)

[chatastic2008]

Traditionally, in this time period, symphonies were written in three movements.  Since Schubert's 8th only had two movements it was called unfinished.

[Tscheiko11]

i'm sorry but i have to correct you.. in this time periode symphonies were written in four movements!!

1. an opening allegro

2. a slow movement

3. a minuet or scherzo

4. an allegro or rondo

[bluesky7191]

It's unfinished . Search for its story on the Google .

[dragons454]

is it really meant to be "unfinished"?

[floy948]

no he didnt able to finish it thats why its unfinished

[artymowycz]

not sure, but i think he passed away before he could finish it

[Tscheiko11]

it is unfinished! two movements were missing..

If you want to know why it's unfinished: it's not becaus he died, it's because he had no many to perform this symphonie he never actually heard it!

[dragons454]

ooooohh... thnx, now i know :)

[LordScooty]

Its not unfinished!

You just cut the symhpony at a certain point ;)...

[StinnesPriester]

It's Symphony No. 7 not No. 8!

[MlleRosie717]

It's the second movement of No. 8

[AlfombraX]

There is confusion on Schubert symphonies, though it is not in this I don't think. There is a number 9.

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[KIMAEREE]

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[classicalspin]

Wish I was related and had the talent he had in his little toe nail. Very sad story, he was dead at only 31, yet his work established him among the truly greats. I feel so strongly about his work, I would gladly give my life so that he might have just 5 years more. Try his 9th symphony, completed, considered by many to be the greatest symphony of all, greater even than Beethoven.

[dreamsandfantasy]

i like it most from 3:10

amazing piece!

[AlexIsaRose]

i like it its good.

[monica9485]

omg i cant believe im related 2 this guy but i really am and he is amazing

[JoJoKenn94]

REALLY?!!! OMG!!!!

[monica9485]

i really am

[JoJoKenn94]

i believe you, i'm not being sarcastic

[suerk1]

çok güzel...çok başarılı.

[legomonkey163]

Pretty abrupt ending. Sounds so "unfinished" ; )

[Ted10038]

This is the 2nd movement. Maybe you're more used to hearing the beginning. :)

[hahaha442]

thats not the right song

[AdventXyer]

Truly a work of art

[TheodoreCao]

great song thanks for uploading it.

[Insanelycoolprincess]

I love Schubert's unfinshed symphony

It is so freakin amazing :)

[handsomechuck1]

@Insanelycoolprincess What a gift to humanity. How fortunate we are to have these dumbfounding works of genius.

[cutencrazy07]

I love this masterpiece

Thank you so much for posting this video :)