I listen to this, and try to imagine how music might have gone had Schubert lived two or three decades longer, what he might have produced in terms of expanding the form and language. And Beethoven, for that matter. Mahler and Schoenberg would have had more of a leg-up start, for one thing - ignoring how Wagner might have gone, let alone Liszt, and all those might-have-beens were it not for the huge shadow of Ludwig van.
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