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Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759 ("Unfinished") (1822) Franz Schubert was born in Vienna, Austria, on 31 January 1797 and died there on 19 November 1828. The first performance of the Eighth Symphony took place in Vienna on 17 December 1865, with Johann Herbeck conducting the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. The Symphony No. 8 is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is 28 minutes. No one is certain why Franz Schubert completed only two movements of what, by tradition, should have been a four-movement symphony. Schubert worked on the B-minor Symphony in October and November of 1822. During that time, he composed and orchestrated the first two movements. Schubert also sketched the third movement Scherzo in almost complete form and orchestrated its first nine bars. No other music survives from this Symphony. Some scholars have opined that Schubert may have intended the identically scored B-minor