George Grove, who rediscovered many of Schubert's symphonies, assigned the following numbering after his 1867 visit to Vienna: Breitkopf & Härtel, when preparing the 1897 complete works publication, originally planned to publish only complete works (which would have given the Great C major No.
When Johannes Brahms became general editor of that project, he assigned the following numbers:[4] Some of the disagreement continued into the 20th century.
George Grove in his 1908 Dictionary of Music and Musicians, assigned the Great C major as No.
[5] The 1978 revision to the Deutsch catalogue leaves the order as follows: As a consequence, generally available scores for the later symphonies may be published using conflicting numbers.
[8] In conclusion, the resulting and most current order followed by the English-speaking world is: D 708A, D 729, D 759, and D 936A have been completed by Schubert scholar Brian Newbould.