Read by Jeremy Siepmann

The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers:
the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age
of sixteen; the quintessential .artist in a garret., entirely consumed by his art
and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna; the gentle, cheerful, convivial
young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly
poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognised
master who died almost penniless at the age of thirty-one. And most of this is true.
But as revealed in this dramatised biography (lavishly illustrated with musical
examples), there was a secret, darker side to Schubert which only renders his story
that much more fascinating.

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