
Symphony No. 9
1824
Amateur players filled out the orchestra at the premiere after only two rehearsals, and the singers complained that the high notes were unsingable.
★ 9.7

Amateur players filled out the orchestra at the premiere after only two rehearsals, and the singers complained that the high notes were unsingable.

Schubert found the second half of these poems in a magazine only after he had already set the first twelve as a finished cycle.