Who was the greatest classical composer of all? Beethoven? Bach? Perhaps the best case can be made for Franz Schubert.
Schubert was born in 1797 and died in 1828. With the possible exception of Mozart, had any other of the great composers lived so briefly he barely would be remembered, and then only as little more than a sadly unfulfilled promise. Take Beethoven. Had he died at Schubert’s tender age, he would have written only his first symphony, his first two piano concertos, and his earliest solo and chamber music — all pleasant enough, but barely distinguishable from the works of contemporaries. No “Eroica,” Fifth, “Pastorale” or “Choral” symphonies, no “Appassionata” or “Hammerklavier” piano sonatas, no “Archduke” trio, no “Kreutzer” violin sonata, no “Emperor” piano concerto, no violin concerto, no late quartets, no “Fidelio” opera — none of the works that revolutionized their genres and changed the course of Western music.
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