Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B flat major D485 Franz Schubert
(1797-1828) Symphony No 5 in B flat major D 485 Andante con moto
Menuetto: Allegro Molto – Trio For the most part, he output was
a rather able mimicking of Haydn and Mozart with a healthy dash
of Rossini and Bach thrown in for colour. Indeed none of his
teachers would ever have predicted that Schubert would create
anything that would distinguish him from the multitude of
composers working in Vienna at the time. For some reason, in the
autumn of 1814, Schubert’s yet untapped talent burst on the
scene and, over the next 15 months, resulted in one of the most
intensely creative periods of any Western artist’s life. During
his 18th year, he composed 150 songs, which works out to more
than one every three days. He wrote more than songs during this
time and when all his output is added up, it works out to
roughly 65 bars of music per day, much of it for full orchestra.
This is all well and good for a focused, full time composer but
when his day job as a sc