Medical Matters
Schubert was 25 when he became aware that he had syphilis, the disease that would eventually kill him six years later. He was a torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral, and when drinking afterwards he proposed a toast to "the one of us who is first to follow after our Beethoven". Schubert died the following year.
Octet in F, D803 (3rd mvt) Nash Ensemble
String Quartet in D minor, 0810 (Death and the Maiden) (3rd mvt) Takacs Quartet
Winterreise (excerpts) Olaf Bar
(baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano) Symphony No 8 in B minor (Unfinished) (2nd mvt) Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Riccardo Muti
Producer Piers Burton-Page
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