the second before abandoning the work. The manuscript was lost, being found in a second-hand bookshop in Berlin in 1886. His wife Cosima asked Wagner's assistant Felix Mottl to orchestrate the sketches. Edvard Grieg's Symphony No. 2, subtitled "In Spring", was left as sketches when he died in 1907. Allan Pettersson's Symphonies No. 1 and 17. No. 1 was begun in 1951, Pettersson wrote a substantial amount of material before he became dissafected with the piece. However, through his life, Pettersson returned to the score several times despite being unable to finish it. Symphony No. 17 was apparently begun in 1979, only leaving a fragment of only 207 bars before he died on 20 June 1980. Both works were completed by Christian Lindberg. Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony No.7 in C minor was begun briefly before his death on 2 June 1937, leaving unfinished sketches. Claude Debussy's Symphony in B minor was written between 1880 and 1881 for four-hands piano, he intended to write it in three movements but left two. Debussy sent the manuscript to Nadezhda von Meck, so the score was kept in a Russian archive after her death. It was published posthumously by Muzgiz in 1933. The work was never orchestrated by Debussy himself, being arranged for orchestra by Tony Finno. Arnold Bax's Symphony in F major was composed in 1907 but left it in a piano score, being dissatisfied with it. It was much later orchestrated by British conductor Martin Yates. Mieczysław Weinberg's Symphony No. 22 was finished in a piano score when he died on 26 February 1996, unable to orchestrate it. Weinberg's wife Olya suggested to Kirill Umansky that he might orchestrate the score. Immersing himself in Weinberg's symphonic music, Umansky completed the orchestration and the first performance was given by the Belgorod State Philharmonic Orchestra in 2003. Mikhail Glinka's Symphonies. Glinka began and left unfinished a single movement two symphonies: A Symphony in B flat major, and the more known Symphony in D minor, subtitled "On Two Russian themes". The first was completed by Petr Klimov, the second by Vissarion Shebalin. See also Curse of the ninth List of symphonies with names References