Franz Schubert who died in 1828 composed some of the world's most beautiful music.
He has never captured the imagination as much as some of his contemporaries, yet his works have a sadness and beauty that in many ways is unparalleled. He died at the age of 31, but he left a rich legacy of songs, symphonies, solo piano compositions as well as several chamber works. These are marked by an intense lyricism (often suggesting a mood of near-pathos), a spontaneous chromatic modulation that is surprising to the ear yet clearly purposeful and often beguilingly expressive, and, not least, an imagination that creates its own formal structures.
Of the great composers associated with Vienna - the others being Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven - Schubert was the only one born in the city, and the only one who failed to achieve international fame in his lifetime. His shyness and lack of instrumental virtuosity contributed to the hardships he endured, but he was responsible for a magnificent body of work that is still appraised and appreciated today
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