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A rewarding extension to the repertoire

Friedrich Schneider, remembered in the music world almost entirely through his oratorio Das Weltgericht (The Last Judgment), bequeathed at his death in 1853 an oeuvre of over 1000 works, among them 23 symphonies. Breitkopf & Härtel, whose association with Schneider began as early as 1805, is now publishing for the first time an edition of his Symphony No. 16.

The symphony composed in 1818 is impressive proof ...