Description

Schubert, ed. Jost – Octet in F Major, D. 803 – Study Score

• Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
• Composer: Franz Schubert
• Editor: Peter Jost
• Format: Study Score
• Length: 127 p.

• 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. We are offering our Urtext edition of the Octet (HN 562) as a study score.