Schubert's Unfinished Symphony

[JiveDadson]

The conductor had to catch a plane right after the concert.

[StarWarsFan786]

Minority Report.

[CrappyRunescapeVids]

It wash unfinished because Schubert didn't like the piece.

[squirrelbuddi]

I saw the Des Moines Symphony perform this awhile back.....very nice. :3

[sobdlzor]

X japan-art of life rock version of this

[animekid252]

wow...the trumpet(s) are really playing Forte..it sorta sounds like they're a bit louder than the ensemble but i really dont know the pyramid of sound in a orchestra set up but really great piece :D one of my favorites

[Simo2009BORO]

this is actually unfinnished by schubert as he didnt write the last few mins

someone else finnished it with a mix of schuberts ideas from earlier in the piece

[martinisporty]

ppl who disliked, i dislike u all!

[prhughes0]

Thought you (and others) might enjoy "my"video treatment of the first movement.

[688james]

This fantastic music is from Schubert. However, as I can recall, the theme on 1.30 was the music of the bad guy on the TV series ''the smurfs''!

[xltoday]

It's amazing that he wrote this before the "minorty report". How did he do it?

[Sarayax8]

wunderschön

[Napoleontas]

This is a masterpiece , shubert was a Genius

[angelothekiller]

perchè si dice incompiuta?

[cuxum]

OMG THE SMURFS!!!!!!!!

[Mesarphelous]

weed goku

[essyayen]

the last couple of minutes are sick

[eleanor233]

this somg makes me cry thinking of my baby :(

[ultracherry55]

it would be awsome if someone so happened to finish the other two movements for him .

[IMusicFanatic]

he a genius ,yeah this piece is what i can call a master piece of him

[ShadowFox1289]

The reason why it's unfinished is because Schubert died before he could finish it.

[8269998]

HALF BEGUN IS WELL DONE- HOW MANY OTHER SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRAL OPENING MOVEMENTS ARE AT THIS LEVEL OF GENIUS? bEETHOVEN'S THIRD AND FIFTH? MOZART'S 40TIETH? MAHLER'S EIGHTH? WHY DOES A SYMPHONY ALWAYS HAVE TO HAVE FOUR MOVEMENTS? THIS ONE ONLY HAD TWO.

[StefPhoenixOoORising]

I remember hearing this for the first time as background music in The Phantom of the Opera. Ah, such memories!

[123booksmart]

We are playing this in Symphonic Orchestra. I love it !

[hotmike1977]

oh no, gargarmel! runnnnnnn!!!!

[TheAmericanCanadian]

this piece feels slightly more modern than the other songs of the time.

[marktdable]

@TheAmericanCanadian It isn't a song, it's a movement from a symphony (sorry to state the obvious)

[xdeiri]

unfinished yet its unmatched

[haui61]

i think, lena gabrielle done this better

[snakerman2612]

sounds finished to me

[CommanderUTube]

We may never know whether Schubert meant to finish his most popular symphony as no manuscripts were ever found that indicated his intentions for a finale. Schubert met an early, untimely death and never heard it performed except in his head. This mysterious, brooding piece is famed for its instantly recognizable, gently lilting theme and plaintive conclusion. (Reader's Digest CD promotion leaflet)

[mattrocks182]

it is the unfinished symphony just not from the begining

[lezare2012]

this isn't the unfinished symphony!!!

[chrisfactoryboi]

Yes it is dont lie.

[jusportland]

@lezare2012 Yes it is.

[ProjectmixBros]

@lezare2012 yes it is. It's Schubert's 8th and it is unfinished.

[rustyflower09]

amazing gets me every time XD but it is amazing...classical music totally pones all

[MistroEduardo]

@rustyflower09 this is actually inspired a lot by Beethoven, and many music experts/scholars today say that Beethoven was the bridge between the Classical and Romantic era (music wise).

[StupidFoolLady]

sooooo If someone still doesnt understand - I explaine!!!!!! ^^) Shubert was a Genius! Usual symphony has 4 parts!!!!!!! but this only 2!! Coz He desided so!!!!!

[venskus2009]

yeah it starts at pick up to D

[venskus2009]

man those forst 2 minutes there is just tingling going down my spine and legs and oh man!!!! talk about suspense!!!!

[Gr33nd0g]

Lisa Simpson used to play this symphony ;)

can't remember the episode / season.

[DonMoza]

@Gr33nd0g

lol thats the episode where homer and bart want to see the monster truck show with that metal t-rex car eating thingy, bart later on becomes a daredevil and attempts to jump springfield gorge :) If I recall correctly thats from 1989 episode 208 "Bart the Daredevil"

[Kelchup]

Wow.. I'd love to have seen that live

[Wrathchild1995]

awesome.

we played that in our orchestra

it gives me heebie-jeebies

woah

[dlghwjd0223]

is this really unfinished?? thats cool,,schubert is my hero,,, i luv him and trout quintet too~!!!

[finalfantsy9]

I believe one of his relatives put the finishing touches on it.

[x0legenddddx0]

yeah there was supposed to be 4 movements but he died after completing the first 2

[ThursdayEnterprise]

actually he just stopped working on it he wrote a complete 9th symphony, just didn't want to work on it.

[mrmups]

@ThursdayEnterprise lol, proves he was human.. we all get days like that.

[pigwidgeonfan]

Actually, he wrote the first two movements when he was 25. He lived another 6 years and wrote his Symphony No. 9 in C Major but, for some reason, never finished Symphony No. 8.

[mbuchanan94]

@pigwidgeonfan didn't he die before he could finish it?

[iloveoldmusicalot]

@pigwidgeonfan he diddnt finesh number 8 cus he died!

(sos bout my spelling)

[reachinforthesun]

does this start a while into it? i was trying to follow my copy of the music and it's not working.

[Exegesis91]

yes it does start a while into it

[yuming97]

yeas it does. its starts like second page ish

[CentiZen]

This is such a great symphony. X-Japan based an entire album on this symphony

[heavymetaldude321]

Angra use the bit beginning at 1:30 for their "Unfinished Allegro" Never realised it was actually Schubert. I just assumed Angra were awesome classical composers.

[herogaines]

From what I hear, it's unfinished not because he died before he could finish it, but because the first three movements were in triple time(3/4, 3/8, 3/4), and because he realized some of his themes resembled themes from Beethoven. Music from Rosamunde has the same key and instrumentation leading some to believe the 4th movement of this work was used for Schubert's ballet.

[dorko225]

I can only play one bit of this

[abnormalily]

Niceee

[jopamacedo]

GARGAMEL!!!

[eWiktor]

you are right, the smurfs are famous for classical soudtrack !

[larryjohnny]

@eWiktor yeah, my favorite theme as a kid, watching Gargamel come out of his Liar... you would always hear this theme... excellent piece, easily his best work... I've listened randomly to some other stuff on here, piano sonatas, string quartets, but nothing is as good. can anyone recommend another similar or comparable Schubert piece ? many thanks for posting !

[mrzeegrr]

Wonderfull. Thank You for posting this.

[PoetOfGray]

thankyou for having this on youtube =D

I need to do a school project on it.

[0PureDenizen]

I also do , it comes up in my A level exam

[angelcutie12397]

im in the sixth grade band for lamarque,tx and this is one of the songs we r gonna play...along with Kengsington March and Valliance

[babablacksheep232]

yeah, but it's probably a watered down version of the song, so that you 6th graders can play it, not the original

[ClassicalMusicReview]

This performance has that Fürtwängler and Wagnerian dimension that is absolutely fabulous.Great psychic intensity and colorful textures here! What lush phrase contours.

Sounds like a good soloist.Bravissimo!

[aladejay]

it is called the "unfinished symphony" because he died before he finished composing it

[aguastini]

It's unfinished, like everybody's life...

[MonsterPhilosophy]

i dont get the unfinished part cant hear what makes it unfinished

[mynameisyibble]

If I am correctly informed, he never finished the piano part.

[lalala2304]

its unfinished i think because there are fewer movements than what regular usual symphonies have.

[neonzebraoatmeal]

yeah I think Schubert died before he could finish it.

[mallory281]

Yeah, Lalala2304 is right. There are 4 movements in a standard Symphony. Only 2 movements were found in what is known as Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, hence the name.

It was played for the first time almost 40 years after the composers death. The composer died 6 years after writing these two movements.

It isn't known exactly why he didn't finish it. Many people say he died before he could finish it.

[candyman1395]

he did

[Plokclop]

actually, the origanal manuscript has pages torn out of it...

[skullcandyman1]

It is called the unfinished symphony because shubert died before he could finifh it. hence the nam unfinifhed symphony.

[TheTemporaryTemp]

actually he died a while later. No one really knows why he didn't finsh it. Maybe he just got boored with it, who knows

[Uxoriouswidow]

It certainly feels somewhat unifinished, but perhaps it was one of those projects that was abondoned due to the difficulty of continuing, it seemed to end so delightfully that it would be difficult to further without losing direction and pace.

[Simo2009BORO]

@Uxoriouswidow Actually someone finnished off this piece of music as schubert died before he finnished (had a chance to come back to) it.

[AntiTwilightGuild]

dude, skullcandyman1 why dont u try to use ur "S"s like a normal person, dumbass

[frederickconrad]

It is unfinished for many reasons... the one that I have been told that makes the most sense to me is that the theme, when played, never finishes. If looking at the music, take measure 52 for cello; it should end the phrase with a G, but it goes E, F#, and then the next phrase.

[iheartsheckler009]

a symphony usually has about 4 or 5 movements but they only found 2

[benroo89]

@iheartsheckler009 Generally symphonies have 3 or 4 movements... I don't know where you're getting 5 from

[prefix331]

@iheartsheckler009 hence why it is called Schubert's unfinished Symphony :)

[sockmaister]

@iheartsheckler009 the found three

[ChaozMKW]

@iheartsheckler009 it says unfinished

[hellomoto65]

fail

[Ashiman12]

Even though this piece is structurally unfinished - lacking the final two movements normal for a symphony of the time - I feel that it's very complete musically. As a piece of music, it is brilliant, and when it ends, the listener is satisfied.

[Henrymusic20]

hermoza melodia

[swedenboy10]

love this

[lildada55]

my orchestra teacher ruined it for us, 2hr practices for 3 weeks practicing this, ir drove me crazy. This song ruined my wrist too. It was swollen for 3 days after the concert. The blood sweat and tears to be princible 2nd violin.

[washitoriko]

stop crying, I've practiced 10 hours a day for about a week. Ofcourse my hand was destroyed, but we live for the music and a moment of joy.

[ShenanigansOHooligan]

At least your hand recovered. Mine never will. Let what happened to me be a lesson to all violinists: get a good bow for you. I used my father's old bow for years. He uses a carbon composite. I use hollow steel. Opposite ends of the spectrum of flexibility. I either have tendonitis or arthritis (can't get a sure diagnosis) from 3 years of using the wrong bow. When I got a good one, it was too late. If it's bad enough that you actually can't move your hand, stop and rest. Don't do what I did.

[neonzebraoatmeal]

freak out 2 hour practices for three weeks.

[Schneefloecken95]

I think, on 3:52 the violins are a bit too deep...

Sry, I can´t spaek English very good, I´m German

[ShenanigansOHooligan]

If you mean too quiet that's the conductor's discretion.

If you mean pitch, it sounds right.

[memyselfandiamshe]

It's beautiful. But it sounds pretty finnished to me, what did Schubert leave out?

[kylehollenbeck]

He actually only completed 2 movements when a symphony usually has 4 movements.

[ShenanigansOHooligan]

That's the Mozart symphony standard. Fast, slow, fast, faster. Beethoven turned that on its head by writing minor keys in and putting slow things in places they typically didn't go and adding a 5th movement at times...just added as some extra info to build on "usually."

[Wrathchild1995]

its awesome, our orchestra played that, I love it!

[zarkidtk]

This beautifully played, the musicians playing are really good ^_^

[sillyxoxo734]

we're playing this in orchestra. it's absolutely beautiful. so emotional. it makes me want to .... i dont even know. it's genius

[snoopster2009]

Actually, it is known as his unfinished symphony because he skipped finishing it to start and complete his 9th symph. He wanted to reach the precedent set by Beethoven by composing 9 symphonies. He planned to complete the 8th after completing the 9th, but he died before he could finish it. He was able to compose his entire 9th symphony, though. Many people think he stopped writing his 8th because he went crazy, died, or was simply too emotionally wracked by it; all are common misconceptions.

[neonzebraoatmeal]

Schubert did attempt to finish this one but never did so the reason it is unfinished is because he died.

[cutencrazy07]

Amazing :)

[dynam0z]

no. he was so emotionally impacted by this symphony that he couldn't finish it and moved on.

[snoopster2009]

He wanted to reach the precedent that Beethoven had set, so he skipped finishing his 8th symphony so that he could compose his 9th symphony and, hopefully, complete the 8th later. He died before he could, probably of syphilis.

[snoopster2009]

Actually, it is known as the unfinished symphony because he stopped working on it in order to compose his 9th symphony. He wanted to match the precedent set by Beethoven by writing 9 symphonies. He was sick, probably with syphilis, and knew he had limited time to complete the 9th, so he planned to finish his 8th symphony after his 9th was complete.

[ezekieloak]

Um. Think someone saw the last two movements. I remember reading somewhere that there is an account by one of his contemporaries that this was ´finished´ at one point in time. Not Schubert´s style to abandon a symphony. But it would be in accordance with the competitive atmoshpere of Vienna at that time if someone knicked the last movement(s). Doesn´t matter anyway. What is in extant is in extant. Enjoy it.

[prototypegmwt]

his style doesn't matter. He died. This was always unfinished. If you heard the other 2, those are arranged from sketched by other lesser composers.

[jvertol1]

That's right. There are the stories that Schubert was driven to write 9, and so he moved on before finishing, and also that he determined that his first two movements of the 8th were so perfect that they could not be improved on. However, incomplete piano sketches exist for the 3rd, and the common account now is that the manuscripts were entrusted to someone for transport, and that this person either lost or kept the 3rd movement.

[LoverGothicGaaraKai]

i don't get why this song was unable to be finish? did he pass away when he wrote this song?...woah deja vu

[wildwoodelven]

are orchestra are playing this =/its qwuite difficult

[glowworm90]

this was perfect!

[phantomofthedrivein]

ah, Q-bert's unfinished symphony

[rmelofranco]

Why do anglophonic people call every piece of music a "song"? It's so bizarre. The French, on the other hand, frequently call every song a "musique". Come on, where are the Gattungen?

[wsmith68]

Because most of us are American idiots who have never heard Schubert's name, even less his music, but have commited the smallest details of Britney Spears' worthless life to permanent memory.

[phantomofthedrivein]

hey!  watch it

[ShogaNinja]

this is the song that served as part of Gargamel's theme on the Smurfs in case you care. It started with Scheherzade and phased into this here song.

[laysovann]

This is really a good piece. I love Shubert!

[Curatellobello]

Bellissima.

[Negligible123]

very good performance

[hidetofan]

Where can I find the intro (0:00 > 1:30) before the beginning of the symphony ?

[Lies6297]

There is a retake. They play the original intro again after the 'heavy' part.

[CelineDionFan4568]

you're from italy?

[fabernoni]

yes, i am from Rome

[CelineDionFan4568]

i always wanted to go.