Bernard Chasan wrote:

>Janos Gereben wrote about a "completion " of Schubert's Unfinished
>Symphony which he found coleted Schubert's woek " not very well".
>
>About seveny five or so years a record company (RCA ?) held a
>contest to choose the best job of finishing that great work.  The
>winner was Kurt Atterberg.  I have no idea whether or not his work
>was ever recorded.., butg iven the sponsorship I assume that it
>was.  I get the impression that the entire enterprise was not
>embraced by the classical comunity with great enthusiasm.  However
>I have no first hand experience of this since I was a babe in arms
>or even younger when these events took place.

One thing I DO remember as a young boy was a Casper the Friendly Ghost
cartoon, in which said character helps the ghost of Schubert to "finish"
his Symphony, using a number of household items as means to create (all
based= on the famous first movement theme) music for the final cadence.

Odd though, the Schubert in the cartoon seemed more like a caricature
of Beethoven, right down to the gruff Germanic accent, than the cherubic
image we have of him today.

Bill H.

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