1797-1828
A portrait in words and music Narrator Richard Pasco
He would sit at the little writing-table, bent over the music paper and the book of poems. bite his pen. drum with his lingers at the same time. tryIng things out. and continue to write easily and fluently, without many corrections, as if it had to be like that and not otherwise.'
(ALBERT STADLER writing in 1858) When Schubert died few people outside Vienna had heard of him. Much of the music for which he is now admired and loved remained unpublished, some of it even still unperformed. Years later, his ageing friends wrote their accounts of what they remembered of him. With DAVID GOODERSON
MALCOLM HAYES , GODFREY KENTON LESLIE SANDS , SEBASTIAN SHAW LEWIS STRINGER and Eva Badura-Skoda . Compiled and produced by ALAN HAYDOCK