What is the name of the unfinished piece that Schubert wrote?
What is the name of the unfinished piece that Schubert wrote? Symphony No. 8 The archetypal unfinished symphony is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (sometimes called Schubert's Unfinished Symphony), written in 1822, six years before his death. It features two fully orchestrated movements. 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...