A Note on Schubert's Great C-Major Symphony

Abstract

The history of Schubert's Great C-Major Symphony, D. 944, has figured so prominently in musicological literature of the past few years1 that any fresh information on the subject will presumably have a certain news value. With this in mind, I hasten to communicate a discovery made during a recent stay in Vienna. Many of those familiar with the symphony have no doubt read that Schubert originally wrote the principal theme of the first movement in the form shown in example la, giving it its definitive shape-shown here as example lb-only after he had completed the movement, if not the entire work.2 It has apparently

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