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Schubert, Franz: Octet in F major D 803

pocket score

Setting: Mixed Ensemble
Period: Romantic
Language: Latin
Length: 128 pages
Weight: 0.29 kg
Published: 2014
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN9562
Other reference: HN 9562
ISMN: 9790201895628
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 hisoctet 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 thecla
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