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STADTPARK - SCHUBERT

Of the four (well-known) musical geniuses that lived in Vienna at the same time - Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert - only Franz Schubert was truly Viennese, by birth as well as temperament. After his premature death, some of his finest scores - never performed in his lifetime - were used to wrap sausages by a local butcher. That is Viennese, too. Here, so much has been lost, so much has been gained...
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Schubert loved water in all its forms and moods Franz Schubert Many of Schubert's most beautiful Lieder depict water as an emotional metaphor
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First posted: September 2003
Last updated: February 2007

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