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Schubert, closely allied in spirit to the master-builder, Beethoven, was unsurpassed in the refinement of his musical sentiment. The melody flooding his soul beautified his piano compositions, to which only a delicate touch may do justice.
Life and death alike were tragic, because hopeless, to Schubert. His career, if career it can be called, is infinitely touching. His helplessness moves one to pity, odd though it seems that one in some ways so strong should also in so many ways be so weak; and his death was as touching as his life. Of all the composers he met death with least heroism.
And, smiling still, he said: "Do you know the most mischievous air that Schubert ever worried us with?" "'Rosamund," she said; "and thank you, Captain Selwyn." She had coloured to the hair. "'Rosamund," he nodded carelessly "the most mischievous of melodies " He stopped short, then coolly resumed: "That mischievous quality is largely a matter of accident, I fancy.
Should you think it inconvenient to publish a book of vocal compositions, lieder or ballads, melodies or lyrical effusions, anything? For a work of this class signed with your name I can easily find a publisher and insist upon a decent honorarium, and there is surely nothing derogatory in continuing in a path which Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Rossini have not disdained.
These great Germans, against whom he revolted, were they not his blood, his flesh, his most precious life? He was only severe with them because he was severe with himself. Who loved them better than he? Who felt more than he the goodness of Schubert, the innocence of Haydn, the tenderness of Mozart, the great heroic heart of Beethoven?
"But we've just settled that artists have no nationality, so I suppose art hasn't either," he said. Sylvia pulled herself together, conscious of a want of control, and laid her hand on Michael's shoulder. "Oh, Michael, what should I do without you?" she said. "And yet well, let me sing." She had placed a volume of Schubert on the music-stand, and opening it at random he found "Du Bist die Ruhe."
In two years he made his first public appearance at a concert at Pesth, when he played a duet concerto for two violins and orchestra with his master, and a solo on a theme by Schubert, with variations. He was now sent to Vienna, where he entered the conservatoire and studied under Böhm for two years.
While even Brahms did not escape the influence of Wagner, nor that of the romanticists Schubert and Chopin, still, in his essence, he represents reaction against modern romanticism and an atavistic return to the spirit of Beethoven.
What she had in mind was one of the "Moments Musicaux" of Schubert a strain of exquisite melody, which ceased too soon. Cecily sat for a few moments at the key-board after she had finished, her head bent; then she came and stood before Miriam. "Do you like it?" There was no answer.
He will not hear of presentiments, and, unlike Hegel, he scouts the Highland second-sight. The 'possessed' of anthropology are epileptic patients. This reference to Swedenborg is remarked upon by Schubert in his preface to the essay of Kant. The opinion in paragraph 35 is a general one as to mystics.
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