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
Decomposing Composers It even includes an attempt to play Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which keeps starting up and winding down, possibly to add to the "death" humour of the song. After an initial spoken section where Luigi talks to his wife on the phone, he summarizes various classical composers who are all dead. He mentions (in order of mentioning): Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Brahms, Elgar, Schubert, Chopin, Handel, Haydn, Rachmaninov, Verdi, Wagner and Debussy. The final, spoken coda to the song includes another list of composers, complete with their death date. He mentions: During this final coda various short snippets of famous classical pieces