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Schubert had written his first six symphonies directly into full orchestral score, without sketching for piano beforehand, but D 615 and D 708A only survive as sketches in piano score. He returned to writing directly into orchestral score for his seventh symphony, although piano sketches exist for the eighth. These four unfinished symphonies thus show how Schubert was, as he stated in a letter from the mid-1820s, preoccupied with "planning a path to a grand symphony ", with his string quartets, octet and these unfinished symphonies as intermediate steps in this plan. The unusually large number of unfinished symphonies on the way to the ninth from the sixth show how preoccupied he was with writing this great symphony, and how important this plan was to him.
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1098:♭
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692:♯
684:♭
678:♭
666:dominant
639:triplets
586:♯
431:dominant
422:♭
241:Newbould
237:Schubert
175:trumpets
160:♭
153:clarinet
36:Schubert
744:C major
641:on the
629:Opening
597:G major
595:key of
581:key of
579:mediant
559:scherzo
477:F major
463:Opening
435:A major
427:tritone
407:on the
401:D major
319:, with
179:timpani
167:D major
116:allegro
85:History
1202:Portal
1110:Little
1089:Tragic
940:961303
938:
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735:made.
575:fugato
333:Mozart
317:staves
216:D 936A
121:fourth
75:eighth
52:sketch
1120:Great
1101:major
1075:major
936:JSTOR
695:major
643:flute
589:minor
329:Haydn
171:horns
163:major
135:fifth
112:ninth
108:sixth
104:D 615
79:tenth
48:D 729
882:ISBN
748:coda
177:and
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1044:by
928:doi
924:126
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498:6
496:G
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