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THE CLASSICAL NATURE
OF SCHUBERT'S LIEDER
By WALTER GRAY
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The Classical Nature of Schubert's Lieder 63
And do his creations sound like, and fit into, the formal and stylistic
traits of the period? Schubert sometimes wrote (in a few diary entries and
letters), and sometimes even acted, like the later stereotyped romantic;
beautiful and imaginative. But he had no friend who stood to him in the relation of
master, who might have been able to guide him in such undertakings by advising,
warning and correcting him ... .What Schubert lacked was a really accomplished
composer to act as teacher and music counsellor, and a fatherly friend to regulate his
mode of living, and it was the lack of these which prevented him from attaining that
greatness to which nature seemed to have destined him." Memoirs of Schubert by
Leopold von Sonnleithner, dated November, 1857. See Otto Erich Deutsch, Schubert:
Memoirs by His Friends (New York, 1958), p. 112.
4 "I recall the impression.., .which was made on me by Schubert's C major Sym-
phony under Mendelssohn's direction. At that time it was not yet fashionable to install
Schubert on the heights of Mt. Olympus; he was loved, admired, and enjoyed as a
minorumn gentiumn, but there were complaints about the expansiveness of his forms and
the monotony of his rhythms." Quoted in Werner, op. cit., p. 314, from Hans von
Billow, Ausgewiihlte Schriften (Leipzig, 1896), pp. 335f.
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The Classical Nature of Schubert's Lieder 71
6 The man who really established the romantic lied, Robert Schu
ways, a paradoxical figure - one who fits all cases and none - a p
He is remarkable among the early romantics in his strong desire to p
tial forms of the classical era, but to infuse them with the new subj
tent of Romanticism.
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