Promising Discovery

When a recording of this Symphony No. 17 by Friedrich Schneider appeared in 2002, it attracted some attention. Now, Breitkopf & Härtel presents the work that, like all Schneider’s symphonies, had remained unpublished, for the first time in a modern edition.

The composer does not use a pathetic-heroic tone as suggested by the key, but follows the urgent, roving, and cantabile character that the key has possessed, especially in early Romanticism since the “Sturm und D...