Symphony No. 9 (Schubert) (English Wikipedia)

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  • Schumann wrote of the "heavenly length of the symphony, like a thick novel in four volumes, perhaps by Jean Paul, who also never wanted to end, and for the best of reasons—in order to allow the reader to continue creating for himself... At first, we may feel a little uneasy because of the... charming variety of vital feeling... but in the end a delightful impression remains. We feel that the composer is the master of his tale, and that, in time, its connections will become clear... It would not give us or others any pleasure to analyze the separate movements; for to give an idea of the novelistic character that pervades the entire symphony, one would have to reproduce it whole." (From: Schumann, Robert. Schulze, Herbert (ed.). Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker: eine Auswahl (in German). Wiesbaden. pp. 177–179. Translated in: Newcomb, Anthony (October 1987). "Schumann and Late Eighteenth-Century Narrative Strategies". 19th-Century Music. 11 (2): 164–174. doi:10.2307/746729. JSTOR 746729.)

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  • DeVoto, Mark (2011). "Background". Schubert's Great C Major: Biography of a Symphony. Boydell and Brewer. pp. 1–12. ISBN 978-1-57647-201-9. JSTOR 10.7722/j.ctt1kt82rk.
  • Frost, H. F. (February 1884). "Schubert and His Works". The Musical Times. JSTOR 3357382. ... The several points of the case may be summed up as follows: 1. That Schubert certainly contemplated writing a grand Symphony in 1824. 2. That he probably wrote such a work at Gastein in 1825... 5. That he probably revised the work in March, 1828, with a view to performance...
  • Schumann wrote of the "heavenly length of the symphony, like a thick novel in four volumes, perhaps by Jean Paul, who also never wanted to end, and for the best of reasons—in order to allow the reader to continue creating for himself... At first, we may feel a little uneasy because of the... charming variety of vital feeling... but in the end a delightful impression remains. We feel that the composer is the master of his tale, and that, in time, its connections will become clear... It would not give us or others any pleasure to analyze the separate movements; for to give an idea of the novelistic character that pervades the entire symphony, one would have to reproduce it whole." (From: Schumann, Robert. Schulze, Herbert (ed.). Gesammelte Schriften über Musik und Musiker: eine Auswahl (in German). Wiesbaden. pp. 177–179. Translated in: Newcomb, Anthony (October 1987). "Schumann and Late Eighteenth-Century Narrative Strategies". 19th-Century Music. 11 (2): 164–174. doi:10.2307/746729. JSTOR 746729.)

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