Which composer left his Tenth Symphony unfinished on his death in 1911? It has been made into performable form most notably by Deryck Cooke in the 1960's?
Erwin Ratz (from 1952 in a leading position) in the Austrian section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). Ratz gained international renown as President of the "Gustav Mahler Gesellschaft" in Vienna, and especially for his role in the publication of the complete edition of Mahler's musical compositions. From 1960, however, Ratz fought against the efforts of Deryck Cooke and others to create performable editions of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, insisting in articles and interviews that no such attempt could be legitimate given the state of Mahler's draft. Ratz is also known for his work "Einführung in die musikalische Formenlehre" ("Introduction
Unfinished symphony indeed, in that form it became one of the most popular pieces in the late 19th century classical music repertoire, and remains one of Schubert's most popular compositions. The unfinished symphony may also refer to: Unfinished symphony An unfinished symphony is a fragment of a symphony, by a particular composer, that musicians and academics consider incomplete or unfinished for various reasons. The archetypal unfinished symphony is Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (sometimes called "Schubert's Unfinished Symphony"), written in 1822, six years before his death. It features two fully orchestrated movements. While it seems clear from sketches that Schubert set out