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Chinese tech company Huawei is incredibly confident in its new smartphone's AI's artistic competency. So confident, in fact, that it has commissioned the AI to complete Franz Schubert's Eighth Symphony, left unfinished at the time of his death (due to syphilis).
- Who finished the Unfinished Symphony?
- Why did Schubert not finish the unfinished symphony?
- What happened to Schubert's Seventh Symphony?
- What was Schubert's last symphony?
Who finished the Unfinished Symphony?
… time, destined to obscurity: the Symphony in B Minor (Unfinished), which speaks from Schubert's heart. Two movements and a half-finished scherzo were completed in October and November 1822. In November of the same year Schubert composed a piano fantasia in which the variations are on a theme from his song…
Why did Schubert not finish the unfinished symphony?
The short answer is that no one knows, but of course there are many theories. The infamously absent-minded composer was badly organized so he did finish it (mostly), he just never put the paperwork together. Under this theory, it's believed that another work by Schubert was originally composed as the fourth movement.
What happened to Schubert's Seventh Symphony?
7 is the name given to a four-movement symphony in E major (D 729) drafted by Franz Schubert in August 1821. ... Schubert seems to have laid the symphony aside in order to work on his opera Alfonso und Estrella, and never returned to it.
What was Schubert's last symphony?
9 in C Major, byname Great C Major, symphony and last major orchestral work by Austrian composer Franz Schubert. It premiered on March 21, 1839, more than a decade after its composer's death. Schubert began his Symphony No.
