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and also schuberts unfinished symphony is very famous. you probably heard it somewhere. and maybe you are able to hear ives quote as well. although he changed it a little bit. it isnt quite clear why schubert didnt finish this piece but the most believeable reason is... all composer in that area were under a great pressure to be at least equal in quality to beethoven. he simply mastered the musical form "symphony". schubert just wrote two movements and he got too close too beethoven in his third "scherzo" (just wrote 20 bars). and because he couldnt reinvent the wheel and already said what he wanted to say in his first two movements he stopped writing. although there are a few nice and unusual ideas, especially in the first movement.