Discovering Masterpieces – Schubert No. 8

Discovering Masterpieces – Schubert No. 8

Watch the series ‘Discovering Masterpieces’: your audio-visual concert guides to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today’s documentary, Franz Schubert's ‘Symphony No. 8 in B minor’, commonly known as ‘the Unfinished’. Schubert started working on it in 1822, but he left only two movements complete, even though the composer would live for another six years. Ever since Schubert died at the age of 31, the Unfinished Symphony has been shrouded in mystery, but research has shed new light on the composer's original intentions, as the German author and musicologist Habakuk Traber explains.