SCHUBERT / KARAJAN Symphonien Nr. 5 & Nr. 8 – die Unvollendete

Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D. 485, was written mainly in September 1816 and completed on October 3, 1816.[1] It was finished six months after the completion of his previous symphony.

Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 (sometimes renumbered as Symphony No. 7,[1] in accordance with the revised Deutsch catalogue and the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe[2]), commonly known as the “Unfinished Symphony” (German: Unvollendete), is a work that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements—though Schubert lived for another six years. A scherzo, nearly completed in piano score but with only two pages orchestrated, also survives.