SCHUBERT OCTET IN F MAJOR D 803

Publisher: Henle
Voicing: Parts
Composer: Franz Schubert
Editor: Peter Jost

The model for this composition was Beethoven's Septet op. 20, whose Divertimento character and six-part layout were adopted by Schubert, although he merely expanded the instrumentation by adding a second violin. In a letter he numbered his octet amongst the chamber music works with which he desired to blaze a path to the great symphony. It can no longer be ascertained whether the composition was commissioned by Count Ferdinand Troyer, who had a musical salon in Vienna and played the clarinet. We only know that Schubert composed the work at the beginning of 1824, taking only a few weeks to do so and that it was shortly performed at Troyer's afterwards. Today it is one of the most popular larger chamber music works.

Item #: 051480562
UPC: 888680044213
Size: 9.5"  x  12.25"
Stock #: HL51480562