Best of Schubert: nine unmissable works by the Romantic prodigy | Classical Music

This gorgeous piece of music the sickly Franz Schubert was able to set to paper before his death, but he was unable to send it to a publisher. It was not until Johannes Brahms discovered and published it 40 years later that the world was able to hear this amazing work of art! It gives us a unique glimpse into Schubert’s compositional development in 1828. Still firmly rooted in the spirit of Classicism, he began to compose almost atmospheric pieces of “heavenly” length (Robert Schumann), repeatin