The music of Franz Schubert has accompanied Austrian composer Richard Dünser for over four decades now, as he orchestrated, arranged and completed several of his works. One of these works is Schubert’s “Symphony in E-Major”, which the composer left unfinished. Dünser’s version of the Symphony in E-Major receives its Austrian premiere on April 23 in Baden near Vienna by the Beethoven Philharmonie under the baton of Thomas Rösner.
The commission to complete the sketches of the E-Major symphony was given by conductor Mario Venzago. On his recommendation and because of his own reservations about the inner movements of D 729 Dünser did not use those of the E major fragment, but instead used the Andante D 936 (a fragment from the last weeks of Schubert's life) as the starting point for the slow movement and the Torso D 708 as the scherzo. This gave the symphony an even greater weight and a depth that could possibly secure it a place alongside the great Schubert symphonies.
For further information see Beethoven Philharmonie.
