old age and approaching death seem to have influenced hüttenbrenner to reveal the work to an important and gracious visitor at long last (in 1865, when he was 76 and had only three more years to live). this was the conductor johann von herbeck, who premiered the extant two movements on 17 december 1865 in vienna, adding the brilliantly busy but expressively lightweight perpetual-motion last movement of schubert's 3rd symphony in d major, as an inadequate finale, expressively quite incompatible with the monumental first two movements of the "unfinished", and not even in the correct key. the performance was nevertheless received with great enthusiasm by the audience. the score of those two movements was not published before 1867.