Card classics: Schubert's 9th

Schubert wrote nine symphonies but never got to hear them performed. The great C major symphony was not performed for the first time until ten years after Schubert's death. It was Robert Schumann who obtained the score during a visit to Vienna in 1838 and Schumann's friend Felix Mendelssohn who conducted the premiere in Leipzig in 1839. Today it is not so easy to understand that the musicians of the time considered the symphony too difficult to p...