Octet in F Major D 803 Henle Music Folios
Octet in F Major D 803 Henle Music Folios
- Henle Music Folios
- G. Henle Verlag
- Parts
- Franz Schubert
- Peter Jost
- $60.95 (US)
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 his octet 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 the clarinet. We only know that Schubert composed the work at the beginning of 1824, taking only a few weeks to do so and that it was shortly performed at Troyer's afterwards. Today it is one of the most popular larger chamber music works.
- Winds
Product Details
- #HL 51480562
- 888680044213
- HN562
- 12.25"
- 9.5"
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