When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw
February 23, 2021, 01:54 AM
sjtill
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Schubert didn't suck.
But he did fuck, which is sad because he died of syphilis at the age of 31.
_________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne
Gerald Moore (the accompanist in the above) wrote a book and later made a record called "The Unashamed Accompanist". The record is real hoot, and uses many Schubert Art Songs as illustrations--I recommend it to any Schubert fans (and also those of Gerald Moore). https://video.search.yahoo.com...24cb7a91&action=view
He was truly a great composer, who wrote in almost all genrés, and died much too soon. His little "Mass in G" is my favorite Mass of all I've sung. It's one of his "shorter" Masses, in which he compacts it by having some of the Credo words overlapping in the parts (and even leaving out some of them). Here's a nice rendition of that Mass: https://video.search.yahoo.com...6fa05fe&action=click