Franz Schubert's most famous piece is the Symphony No.8, "Unfinished." The first six symphonies he wrote followed each other at about 12 month intervals. In 1818 he began to study the works of the still-living Beethoven, and began to work longer and more strenuously on his compositions. Subsequently, at this point he began to leave many works incomplete...perhaps due to self-doubt as to their quality in comparison with Beethoven or at least in comparison with the challenge of the painfully intense craftsmanship of Beethoven's music. The first two movements of the projected four movement work were orchestrated. Although sketches for the last two movements exist, Schubert appears to have abandoned them and offered the symphony, in the two movement form we have now, to the Styrian Music Society on September 20th, 1823, describing it as a complete symphony in full score. Considering this fact it seems that the "Unfinished," is hardly unfinished at all but represents the composer's final intention for the work. This is also significant as it is the first symphony that I know of to begin in one key and end in another (later Mahler would do this), and the first symphony since Haydn to end quietly.