Symphony D.936A of Schubert

The Symphony D.936A in major D of Franz Schubert, regarded as its Tenth , in spite of the problem caused by this existence of many unfinished projects and yet sometimes quite advanced, is one of its very last compositions.

Already weakened by the disease, Schubert went on November 4th 1828 with his/her friend Josef Lanz to find the professor Simon Sechter (who was later the professor of Anton Bruckner), wishing to take a lesson of counterpoint near the Master. Sechter required of him to make a exercise of running away, partly on the letters of SCHUBERT , and to return for a second lesson on November 10th, to which confined to bed Schubert could not go. Notes of this " exercice" were found in the margins of the partition of a new symphony in major D, that Schubert had undertaken about at the same time.

This symphony was found and published only in 1978 by Ernst Hilmar, and was the subject of a rebuilding work in 1983 by the musicologist Brian Newbould. It is probably the symphony of 1828 whose the friend spoke about Schubert Eduard von Bauernfeld, called " Dernière" , that one believed lost even imaginary. There remain three outlined movements about it. The second, the Andante in so minor, in particular held the attention, by his austere and prophetic atmosphere, almost funeral, in which much sees an anticipation of the writing mahlérienne.

I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante
III. Finale. Allegro moderato

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