after hüttenbrenner's release of the two completed movements of the "unfinished" to herbeck, some music historians and scholars took much trouble to "prove" the composition complete even in the truncated two-movement form, and indeed that abbreviated structure alone has captivated the listening public to consider it as one of schubert's most cherished compositions. the fact that classical tradition was unlikely to accept that a symphony could end in a different key from the one it began in (with the b minor first movement and the e major finale by default incomplete), and the even more undeniable fact that schubert had begun a third movement in b minor (leaving precisely 30 bars of fully orchestrated scherzo and 112 succeeding bars in short score), stands against the view that the two completed movements can legitimately stand alone.