SCHUBERT FRANZ : (1797-1828) Austrian Composer,

SCHUBERT FRANZ : (1797-1828) Austrian Composer, one of the greatest composers in the history of classical music. Despite his very early death at the age of thirty-one, Schubert left a large number of works from the late Classical to the early Romantic era. An exceptionally rare and very fine Manuscript Musical Score by Franz Schubert, four full pages and a half, 4to, score sheets, 9 x 11.5, (22.5 cm x 29 cm), n.p., n.d., entitled in his hand to the heading of the front page `Organo Magnificat´. Schubert has carefully and boldly penned over fifty bars and twelve stages per page, including multiple annotations and tempos, and one correction, stating to the heading of the front page `All[egr]o maestoso´, to the heading of the third `All[egr]o vivace´, and at the conclusion, in bold letters, `Fine´, in Italian. The score corresponds to the full organ part from his work `Magnificat in C Major, d-486´, a shortened version of his Hymn, which Schubert composed in 1816, a youthful but powerful and solemn work, and which his brother Ferdinand called `Great Magnificat´, although he would never compose any other. The structure and musical tone recalls the Te Deum (1800) by Joseph Haydn. A clean and exceptional manuscript musical score of great rarity. Very small overall age tone, otherwise VG