Franz Schubert Home - Vienna

Franz Schubert's home is on Spiegelgasse in Vienna, Austria.  The noted composer lived here, in the home of his friend Franz von Schober, from 1822 to 1823.  It was here that he worked on his infamous Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, also known as his Unfinished Symphony.  He completed the first two movements of the piece, and then stopped work shortly into the scherzo that would have been the third movement.  He never returned to the piece and it remained incomplete even as he bestowed it as a gift in 1823 to his friend Anselm Huttenbrenner, a member of the Graz Music Society, in response to an honorary diploma the society gave him.  Huttenbrenner sat on the work until 1865 when it was shown to conductor Johann von Herbeck and finally given a premiere on December 17.  The exact reasons for Schubert never finishing the piece remain unknown, but his impending illness has been suggested, as well as an unproven theory that he actually used part of the music he had written for the symphony as incidental music for the play Rosamunde instead.  A plaque was placed on the site of his home in 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death. 

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