Schubert’s first six symphonies, as critics have never tired of saying, are strongly indebted to the works of Haydn and Mozart, whose symphonies are echoed in quite a few passages. What is even more startling is the originality of his output from the years 1815-16 after only four or five years of active composing, he had reached a level of technical perfection that was second to none, in a voice that was unmistakably his own. This is especially true when one remembers that during most of this time he worked as an assistant teacher at his father’s school, and could really compose only at night or on Sundays. Schubert’s productivity during his late teens is nothing short of mind-boggling. These simple biographical facts about Schubert and his Fifth Symphony are repeated so often–in fact, they are reprinted almost any time someone writes about this work–that many of us never stop to think about what is behind the figures.
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