List of compositions by Franz Schubert

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Many of Franz Schubert's works are covered in separate Wikipedia articles, for which there are links on this page.

A complete list of Schubert's works arranged by "D number" (see below), is available in the following two articles:

• Schubert compositions D number 1-504
• Schubert compositions D number 505-998

[edit] About the way(s) Schubert's compositions are listed

The indication "D" or "D." refers to "Deutsch", that is Otto Erich Deutsch, who created a (more or less) chronological (by composition date) catalogue of Schubert's works. Note that this catalogue has been amended several times, leading to numbers followed by a letter, for example D.769a, formerly D.900 (because historical research led to a new probable date of composition).

The compositions of Schubert listed below are grouped generically, by type of composition. Not all thematic groups of Schubert works have a separate numbering that is generally accepted: for example the numbering of the piano sonatas proved particularly cumbersome, see below. Also for the symphonies the numbering from 1 to 10 is only "stable" insofar as no more new symphonies turn up. For most other groups of works there was no real attempt to number them, apart from the general numbering in the Deutsch catalogue.

Less than 100 of Schubert's compositions received an Opus number during Schubert's life: about half of the Opus numbers are posthumous, and give no indication at all regarding a chronological - or any other - order, except regarding the chronological order of publication. By the end of the 19th century no new opus numbers were added; for new publications the Deutsch number was used.

[edit] Thematic list of Schubert's compositions

This list gives some better known examples of Schubert's 1000-odd compositions.

Schubert's autograph of the Octet in F (D.803), according to some scholars a possible version of his so-called 'Gastein symphony'

[edit] Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 in D major (D.82)
• Symphony No. 2 in B-flat (D.125)
• Symphony No. 3 in D major (D.200)
• Symphony No. 4 in C minor (D.417), the Tragic
• Symphony No. 5 in B-flat (D.485)
• Symphony No. 6 in C major (D.589)
• Symphony No. 7 in E major (D.729): Sketched in full score 1821, with part of the first movement fully orchestrated (performing versions by John Barnett, Felix Weingartner and Brian Newbould)
• Symphony No. 8 in B minor (D.759), the Unfinished - sometimes counted as No. 7
• Symphony No. 9 in C major (D.944), the Great - sometimes counted as No. 7 or No. 8 (see: Curse of the ninth)
• 10th (or "Last") Symphony in D major (elaborated by Brian Newbould from the symphonic sketch D.936a)
• in addition, there was long believed to have been a "Sketch for a Grand Symphony" made at Gastein in 1824. No score of this 'Gastein Symphony' appears to have survived, but it is often identified with the Sonata in C major for 2 pianos(D.812, Op. 140) and/or the Octet in F (D.803). Orchestrations of the Sonata, also known as the Grand Duo, were made by Joseph Joachim and others in an attempt to restore this "lost symphony" to the Schubert canon, but it is now known that the 'Grand Symphony' begun in 1824 is the same work as the "Great C major" (cf John Reed, Schubert, The Final Years (London, 1972)).

[edit] The Numbering of Schubert's Symphonies

Between 1813 and 1818 Schubert wrote six symphonies, now known as Nos.1-6. In 1818 he drafted a four-movement symphony in E (now No.7) in outline but only orchestrated the start of the first movement. In 1822 he composed and orchestrated two movements of a symphony in B minor (now No.8, the ‘Unfinished’) and drafted part of a third movement; whether or not he had drafted a finale remains moot. In 1825-26 he completed a large symphony in C major (now No.9, the ‘Great’). There are in addition numerous sketches and fragments for other symphonies, and in the 1970s it was realized that these included the nearly-complete draft of a three-movement Symphony in D from the summer and autumn of 1828. A performing version of this work was orchestrated by Brian Newbould as Symphony No.10.

The first Schubert Symphony to be performed was the ‘Great’: this was designated by Schubert’s brother Ferdinand as ‘No.7’ as early as the 1830s. In the 1840s the thematic catalogue of Schubert’s works prepared by Alois Fuchs accepted this numbering and also called the drafted E major symphony ‘No.8’. The two completed movements of the B minor symphony were not performed until 1865, and it was George Grove who decided that this symphony – the ‘Unfinished’ - should be No.8, with the E major dropping to No.7 and the Great C major becoming No.9. Though this has been the preferred numbering ever since, not least because it respects the chronological order of these works, the old numbering of the Great C major as No.7 has been remarkably persistent and is still sometimes encountered. In addition to this the revised Deutsch catalogue edited by Walter Dürr and Arnold Fell has proposed that the E major Symphony should have no number, that the ‘Unfinished’ should be called ‘No.7’ and the Great C major ‘No.8’: but this view, as well as being illogical – the E major Symphony is essentially an entire work, as various completions have shown – is unlikely to prevail over current practice.

[edit] Music for chamber ensemble

• Piano Quintet in A, The Trout Quintet (D.667) - see also Songs below.
• Quartettsatz (quartet movement) in C minor (D.703)
• Octet in F (D.803)
• String Quartet in A minor, the Rosamunde Quartet (D.804)
• Arpeggione sonata (D.821), for a cello-like new instrument and piano, now generally played on cello.
• String Quartet in D minor, using music of the Death and the Maiden song (D.810)
• String Quartet No. 15 in G (D. 887, Op. 161, 1826)
• Rondeau brilliant for piano and violin (D.895, Op.70)
• Fantasia for piano and violin in C (D.934)
• Two Piano trios (B flat, D.898 - E flat, D.929)
• String Quintet in C (D.956)

[edit] Piano solo

The table below concentrates on piano sonatas and other well-known piano pieces that are still regularly heard today. Other piano music by Schubert includes a host of short pieces, most of them German dances, minuets, marches and the like.

There is also a considerable number of piano pieces for four hands by Schubert, the Military March being one of the most famous of these. Another is the Grand Duo.

Legend to the table:

• A, B and C: three different numberings of Schubert's piano sonatas: A is the oldest (referring to the 1888 first "integral" edition of Schubert's sonatas by Breitkopf and Härtel, not making reference to the Deutsch catalogue this edition of Schubert sonatas is reprinted from 1970 on by Dover Publications). As more pieces turned up that could be labelled as Sonata, the numbering extended, also re-numbering some of the pieces that had already been published. Note that in Schubert's lifetime "Fantasie" (Phantasy) and "Sonate" (Sonata) had a somewhat overlapping meaning: by convention the Wanderer Fantasy was never numbered as a sonata, while D. 894 always was.
• U: unfinished work
• numbers 1., 2., etc...: individual movements of the compositions.
• Opus: "(p)" or "posth." indicates a posthumous publication.

[edit] Lieder (songs) and songcycles

Over 700 songtexts set by Schubert can be retrieved from http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=2520 (many of these with English translations).

• Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (D.965, published as Op. 129)
• Der Taucher (D.77/111)
• Gretchen am Spinnrade (D.118, published as Op. 2).
• Erlkönig (D.328, published as Op. 1) - text by Goethe
• Einsamkeit (D.620)
• Marienbild (D.623)
• Litaney
• Schäfers Klagelied
• Die Forelle (The trout), the theme of which was used in the Trout Quintet (see above)
• Death and the Maiden (D.531 - see also Death and the Maiden Quartet).
• l'Addio
• Die schöne Müllerin or the Müllerlieder (D.795), song-cycle - text by Wilhelm Müller
• Ave Maria (original title: Ellens Gesang III, D.839), text based on an excerpt from Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake
• Ständchen (D.889), setting of a German text based on Shakespeare's Hark! Hark! the Lark (Cymbeline, Act II, scene 3)
• An Silvia (D.891), text based on Shakespeare's Who is Sylvia?
• Winterreise (D.911), song-cycle
• Song of Miriam
• Schwanengesang or Swansong (D.957), cycle of songs, some of which are on poems by Heinrich Heine
• Der Wanderer

[edit] Masses, oratoria and other religious compositions

[edit] Liturgical compositions

• Mass No. 2 in G (D.167) (media)
• Magnificat in C (D.486}
• Mass No. 5 in A flat (D.678)
• Deutsche Messe (D.872)
• Mass No. 6 in E-flat (D.950)
• Tantum Ergo (D.962)

[edit] Oratorio

• Lazarus (D.689)

[edit] Opera and theatre music

• Des Teufels Lustschloss (D.84)
• Der vierjährige Posten (D.190)
• Fernando (D.220)
• Claudine von Villabella (D.239)
• Adrast (D.137) - unfinished
• Die Freunde von Salamanka (D.326) - unfinished
• Die Bürgschaft (D.435)
• Die Zwillingsbrüder (D.647)
• Die Zauberharfe (D.644)
• Alfonso und Estrella
• Fierabras (D.796), the opera that kept most notoriety after Schubert's death.
• Die Verschworenen (D.787), comic opera
• Rosamunde (D.797) (incidental music to a play; see also Entr'acte and Schubert's Piano impromptu in B flat, Op. Posth. 142 No. 3 (D.935/3) above)

[edit] See also

• Schubert music scores - At the Mutopia project
• Schubert music scores - At the Gutenberg Project
• The complete Deutsch catalogue
• Schubertline - hundreds of Schubert's song scores