IV. Finale. Allegro vivace

Schubert: Symphony No.9, 'Great' in C. The symphony earns its nickname first of all because it represents the goal of 'the road towards the great symphony', which Schubert had set out to find in 1824, secondly as it belongs to the indubitable masterworks of its genre, and thirdly - and for more pragmatic reasons - in order to distinguish it from another of Schubert's symphonies, namely the 'little' Symphony No.6 in C major from 1818.