Composers World Schubert - Text by Thompson F51198

Composers World Schubert - Text Book by Thompson

,Compser's World is a new series of picture books for both younger and older readers, illustrating the lives and times of the world's greatest composers. With pictures, words and music, it places each composer's life and owrk within the circumstanced which shaped his career.

,For Schubert, carrying a torch in Beethoven's funeral procession was simply an act of private and public homage; but we can now see that it had a far deeper significance. The torch of Beethoven's genius had been passedon to Schubert - the last great Viennese composer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.