Kevin Sutton ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>>You're using the intermediate numbering system.  Time was when the Great C
>>major was numbered 7, then 9 and now IIRC 8.
>
>The Great C major is still 9.  The Unfinished is 8 and I believe that a
>number is skipped altogether.

That's the way it was until sometime in the last decade or so.  (7 was
omitted).

In oder to confirm this suspcicion I've just dug out my copy of
Harnoncourt's complete cycle (issued in 1993) and the following note
is found there:

   Our numbering of the symphonies is that of the New Schubert Edition
   and the catalogue compiled by Otto Eric Deutsch.  In the old complete
   edition, the "Unfinished" followed the seven complete symphonies as
   No.8 Later the "Great C major" was added as No.9 with the aim of
   incorporating the "Unfinished" into the chronological sequence.
   The fragmentary Symphony in E (D729) was then given the number 7."

So we have the following situation:

   Orginal edition: 1-6, 7 (Great C major), 8 (Unfinished)
   "Intermediate": 1-6, 7 (D729 - frag), 8 (Unfinished), 9 (GCM)
   New edition: 1-6, 7 (Unfinished), 8 (GCM).

I have the feeling that the first version of the GCM I saw numbered as 8
was Jeffrey Tate's, but wouldn't swaer to it.


Deryk Barker
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