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The World of Franz Schubert, Part 1
Franz Schubert was born in 1797, at the cusp of the 19th century and amid a rapidly changing landscape of ideas, politics, literature, industry and music. "It was a seething world that Schubert came into," host David Dubal says. The composer would eventually participate in this transformation, helping bridge the Classical and Romantic eras.
The first part of this series explores a selection of the composer's works for the piano that mark this turbulent time, played by superb Schubertians Claudio Arrau, Alfred Brendel and many others.
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