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Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828), a Viennese composer of the late Classical to early Romantic eras, left a very extensive body of work notwithstanding his short life. He wrote over 1,500 items, or, when collections, cycles and variants are grouped, some thousand compositions. The largest group are his over six hundred Lieder for solo voice and piano. He composed nearly as many piano pieces, and further some 150 part songs, some 40 liturgical compositions (including several masses) and around 20 stage works like operas and incidental music. His orchestral output includes thirteen symphonies (seven completed) and several overtures. Schubert's chamber music includes over 20 string quartets, and several quintets, trios and duos.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Otto Erich Deutsch compiled the first comprehensive catalogue of Schubert's works and published it in 1951 as Schubert: Thematic Catalogue of all his Works in Chronological Order.[7] A revised edition appeared in German in 1978.[8] Later editions of the catalogue contained minor updates.[9]
Publication of Schubert's compositions started during his lifetime, by opus number. After the composer's death, posthumous opus numbers continued to be assigned to new publications of his work until 1867 (Op. post. 173). Meanwhile, publications without opus number had also started. For instance, from shortly after the composer's death, the many songs in Diabelli's fifty Nachlaß-Lieferung (installment from the heritage) editions.[7]
There are two attempts to publish everything Schubert has composed in a single edition:
- From 1884 to 1897 Breitkopf & Härtel published twenty-two series of Franz Schubert's Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe, known as the Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe (AGA, the former complete edition). From 1965 Dover Publications started to reprint this edition, and later it was made available at the IMSLP website.[10]
- The Neue Schubert-Ausgabe (NSA), also known as the New Schubert Edition (NSE), is published by Bärenreiter (Kassel).[11] Plans for this edition began as early as 1963, with the foundation of the International Schubert Society, headquartered at the University of Tübingen, Germany.[12] 81 of the edition's projected 101 volumes were published by early May 2015, and it is scheduled to conclude in 2027.[13]
Websites such as Schubert Online (schubert-online.at) provide facsimiles (scans) of Schubert's autographs and of other manuscripts and early editions of his work.[14] Texts of Schubert's vocal music can be published without the music, for instance his Lieder (songs) at the LiederNet Archive website.[15]
Works listed in the Deutsch catalogue
The 1951 first edition of the Deutsch catalogue attempted to list all dated works by Schubert in chronological order, assigning them a number from 1 to 965. Undated works were ordered in the range 966–992. Nos. 993–998 referred to manuscripts that had resurfaced shortly before the catalogue was printed.[7]
Later versions of the catalogue adhered to the general principles that Deutsch numbers below 966 referred, in a chronological order, to compositions by Schubert with an established time of composition, and that the range 966–992 was reserved for his compositions with an uncertain date of composition. Thus "Die Taubenpost", the last Lied Schubert composed, was reassigned from D 957 No. 14 to D 965A, and D 993, an early piano composition, to D 2E.[8]
- Spurious and doubtful works (Anh. I)
- Annex I of the first edition of the catalogue contains only a single composition under the header Spurious and doubtful works, but however also points to some compositions with authentication issues elsewhere in the catalogue.[7] The 1978 edition of the catalogue lists 32 spurious and doubtful works in its first Anhang (annex), including some that were for that reason removed from the main catalogue.[8]
- Arrangements by Schubert (Anh. II)
- The 1978 version of the catalogue lists 4 arrangements by Schubert in its second Anhang[8]
- Works of others composers copied by Schubert (Anh. III)
- Annex II in the first edition of the catalogue contains compositions by other composers copied by Schubert.[7] In the 1978 edition the list was expanded and became Anhang III.[8]
- "Setting" vs. "version" distinction
- the New Schubert Edition distinguishes between Bearbeitung (setting) and Fassung (version), the first meaning an independent composition, the second stages of the same composition (modifications of essentially the same composition). Usually different settings have different D numbers, while versions are grouped under the same D number, unless when set for a different (group of) performer(s). The first edition of the Deutsch catalogue was less strict on that point, leading to Deutsch number reassignments in later publications. Example: D 174 is described as two settings of the same text in the original catalogue, the second having become "D deest" by the time it was published in Series IV, Volume 8 of the New Schubert Edition (while the music has no resemblance to the earlier setting). On the other hand, despite a difference in key and number of movements, the original D 567 and D 568 were ultimately published under the same D number as two versions of the same sonata.[7][8][11][9]
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| column | content | |
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| 1 | D '51 | Deutsch number in the first version of the Deutsch catalogue (1951)[7] |
| 2 | D utd | most recent (utd = up to date) Deutsch catalogue number;[9] the basic collation of the list is according to these numbers – whether or not the possibility to adjust the sorting according to the content of other columns is available depends on the device with which the table is displayed. |
| 3 | Op. pbl |
Opus number (Op.; p indicates Post. = posthumous) and date of first publication (pbl; between brackets; when there is more than one date the earlier dates indicate partial publications). The column sorts to Opus number, then (earliest of) the publication date(s) |
| 4 | AGA | Alte Gesamt-Ausgabe = Franz Schubert's Werke: Kritisch durchgesehene Gesammtausgabe. Indicates genre/instrumentation:[10]
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| 5 | NSA | NGA/NSA/NSE = New Schubert Edition, also indicates genre/instrumentation:[11]
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| 6 | Name | unique name, with, if available, a link to the relevant encyclopedia article; sorts by name with initial definite ("Der", "Die", "Das", ...) or indefinite ("Ein", "A", ...) articles, and numbers, moved after the expression they qualify: e.g. "Die Hoffnung, ..." sorts as "Hoffnung, Die, ..." – "Thirty Minuets ..." sorts as "Minuets, 30, ...". |
| 7 | Key / incipit | incipit mostly for songs[16] (linking to lyrics and their translation, for instance at The LiederNet Archive, when available),[15] other compositions by key, except for Schubert's stage works: type of composition in brackets. |
| 8 | Date | (presumed) date of composition, or, for copies and arrangements, date of Schubert's autograph. Sorts to earliest possible date of completion, unlike the chronology of the Deutsch catalogue that generally collates according to earliest date associated with the composition: e.g. Schubert started the composition of his 3rd String Quartet on 19 November 1812 and completed it on 21 February 1813 – in the Deutsch catalogue the composition is grouped with other compositions from 1812: when using the sort function of the 8th column the composition is grouped with compositions completed in 1813 |
| 9 | Additional info | may include:
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Table
| D '51 |
D utd |
Op. pbl |
AGA | NSA | Name | Key / incipit | Date | Additional info |
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| 1–1C |
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1810 | Up ↑ | |||||
| 1 | 1 | (1888) | IX, 3 No. 30 |
VII/1, 1 No. 1 & Anh. No. 1 | Fantasy, D 1 | G major | 8/4/1810– 1/5/1810 |
For piano duet; Two versions of Finale |
| 1A | (1969) | IV, 6 Anh. No. 1 |
Song, D 1A | C minor | before 1810? |
For b and piano; Sketch; Music partly reused in D 39 | ||
| 1B | VII/1, 1 Anh. No. 2 | Fantasy, D 1B | G major | 1810–1811 | For piano duet; Fragment; Music related to D 1 and 7 | |||
| 1C | VII/1, 1 Anh. No. 3 | Sonata, D 1C | F major | 1810–1811 | For piano duet; Largo (fragment) | |||
| 2–12 |
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1811 | Up ↑ | |||||
| 996 | 2A | V, 6 No. 1 | Overture, D 2A | D major | 1811? | For orchestra | ||
| 997 | 2B | V, 6 No. 2 | Symphony, D 2B | D major | 1811? | Adagio, Allegro con moto (fragment) | ||
| 998 | 2C | (1978) | VI, 3 Anh. No. 1 |
String Quartet, D 2C | D minor or F major | 1811? | Fragment | |
| 995 | 2D | (1956) (1970) |
VI, 9 | Six Minuets, D 2D | Various keys | 1811 | For winds; Nos. 1–2: piano version publ. in 1956; Nos. 4-6: sketches | |
| 993 | 2E | VII/2, 4 | Fantasy, D 2E | C minor | 1811 | For piano | ||
| 2F | VI, 9 | Trio, D 2F | 1811 | For winds?; Sketch; Belongs to a lost Minuet | ||||
| 2G | V, 6 No. 3 | Overture, D 2G | D major | 1810–1811? | For orchestra; Fragment | |||
| 3 | 3 | (1978) | VI, 3 Anh. No. 2 |
String Quartet, D 3 | C major | 1812? | Andante (fragment); Partly reused in D 29 and in an early sketch of D 36 | |
| 4 | 4 | (1886) | II No. 1 |
V, 5 | Overture to the play Der Teufel als Hydraulicus | (Overture to a comedy with singing) D major |
1812? | For orchestra; Play by Albrecht (plot similar to Weidmann's Der Bettelstudent) |
| 5 | 5 | (1894) | XX, 1 No. 1 |
IV, 6 No. 1 |
Hagars Klage | Hier am Hügel heißen Sandes | 30/03/1811 | Text by Schücking; Music partly reused in D 8 and 9 |
| 6 | 6 | (1894) | XX, 1 No. 2 |
IV, 3 | Des Mädchens Klage, D 6 | Der Eichwald brauset | 1811–1812 | Text by Schiller, from Wallenstein: Die Piccolomini III, 7 (other settings: D 191 and 389) |
| 7 | 7 | (1894) | XX, 1 No. 3 |
IV, 6 No. 2 |
Leichenfantasie | Mit erstorbnem Scheinen | 1811? | Text by Schiller; reuses music of D 1B |
| 8 | 8 | (1970) | VI, 2 No. 1 | Overture, D 8 | C minor | 29/6/1811 | For string quintet (two violins, two violas and cello); Music reappears in D 8A | |
| 8A | (1970) | VI, 3 No. 3 | Overture, D 8A | C minor | After 12/7/1811 |
For string quartet; Based on D 8 | ||
| 9 | 9 | (1888) | IX, 3 No. 31 |
VII/1, 1 No. 2 |
Fantasy, D 9 | G minor | 20/9/1811 | For piano duet |
| 10 | 10 | (1894) | XX, 1 No. 4 |
IV, 6 No. 3 |
Der Vatermörder | Ein Vater starb von des Sohnes Hand | 26/12/1811 | Text by Pfeffel |
| 11 966 |
11 | (1893) (1897) |
XV, 7 No. 12 XXI, 1 No.1 |
II, 11 | Der Spiegelritter | (Singspiel in three acts) | December 1811? |
Text by Kotzebue; For ssssstttbbbbSATB and orchestra; Overture (publ. in 1897) – Nos. 1–8 (Act I, Nos. 2–3 and 8 are fragments, No. 3 not in AGA, part of No. 3 was D 966) |
| 12 | 12 | (1897) | XXI, 1 No. 2 |
V, 5 | Overture, D 12 | D major | 1811–1812 | For orchestra; Music partly reused in D 94 |
| 13–37 |
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1812 | Up ↑ | |||||
| 13 | 13 | VII/2, 4 | Fugue, D 13 | D minor | c. 1812 | For piano?; By Schubert? | ||
| 14 | 14 | Overture, D 14 | c. 1812 | Piano sketch; Lost | ||||
| 15 | 15 | (1895) | XX, 10 No. 590/1 |
IV, 7 Anh. No. 5 |
Der Geistertanz, D 15 | Die bretterne Kammer der Toten erbebt | c. 1812 | Text by Matthisson (other settings: D 15A, 116 and 494); Fragment |
| 15 | 15A | (1895) | XX, 10 No. 590/2 |
IV, 7 Anh. No. 6 |
Der Geistertanz, D 15A | Die bretterne Kammer der Toten erbebt | c. 1812 | Text by Matthisson (other settings: D 15, 116 and 494); Fragment |
| 16 | 16 | (1940) | VIII, 2 No. 11 |
Counterpoint exercises, D 16 | G minor (Nos. 1–4); A minor (Nos. 5–7) | 1823? | Seven exercises in double counterpoint | |