Symphony No. 8 (Schubert) by default incomplete), and the even more undeniable fact that Schubert had begun a third movement in B minor (leaving precisely 30 bars of fully orchestrated scherzo and 112 succeeding bars in short score), stands against the view that the two completed movements can legitimately stand alone. Reviewing the premiere of the symphony in 1865, the music critic Eduard Hanslick wrote: He ended by stressing that the symphony is among Schubert's most beautiful instrumental works. In 1927–28, Felix Weingartner—better known as a classical conductor and the first to record all nine Beethoven symphonies and the second, after Stokowski, to record
Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) initially, the Italian phrase "Intitolata Bonaparte" ("Titled Bonaparte"), secondly, the German phrase "Geschriben auf Bonaparte" ("Written for Bonaparte"), four lines below the Italian sub-title. Three months after retracting his initial Napoleonic dedication of the symphony, Beethoven informed his music publisher that "The title of the symphony is really "Bonaparte"". In 1806, the score was published under the Italian title "Sinfonia Eroica ... composta per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grande Uomo" ("Heroic Symphony, Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man"). Composed from the autumn of 1803 until the spring of 1804, the earliest rehearsals and performances of the