Schubert's unknown symphonies

Extract As distinguished a book as Charles Rosen's The Classical Style betrays the blind spot of its era by its subtitle, ‘Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven’. And Schubert? Few composers have remained so stubbornly misunderstood as this reputed café tunesmith whose intellect and technique supposedly didn't match his symphonic ambitions. Times are beginning to change. Among much else Newbould's new book observes that, had Beethoven died at the age at which Schubert composed his ‘Great’ and last completed symphony, there would be no Beethoven symphonies at all. Also quoted (p. 286) is Dvořák's admiration of Schubert as symphonist

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