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. *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html