Octet in F major D 803

for clarinet (Bb/C), bassoon, horn (F/C), 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass

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Franz Schubert

Octet in F major D 803

for clarinet (Bb/C), bassoon, horn (F/C), 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass

Franz Schubert

Octet in F major D 803

for clarinet (Bb/C), bassoon, horn (F/C), 2 violins, viola, violoncello and double bass

  • Instrumentation Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass
  • Composer Franz Schubert
  • Editor Peter Jost
  • Edition Set of Parts (Urtext)
  • Publisher Henle Verlag
  • Order no. HN562
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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 158
  • Release: 11.08.2014
  • Weight: 623 g
  • Key: F major
  • Genre: Classical Music
  • ISMN: 9790201805627
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.