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"I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. What I feel in my heart, I give to the world." —FRANZ SCHUBERT

Key Points

  • Like Beethoven, Franz Schubert is a transitional figure between eighteenth-century Classicism and the new spirit of Romanticism.
  • Schubert's symphonies and chamber music follow in the Classical tradition of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; his songs, however, reflect the Romantic spirit.
  • Schubert's Trout Quintet is a five-movement, classically structured work, one movement of which is a theme and variations based on his own song The Trout.

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