Jonathan Gaisman

Collected essays, reviews and articles

Enchanted garden of song

November 2017, Standpoint

Turning poems into precious music: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), in a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber

Preface

Of all composers the most precious to classical music lovers, Schubert is interesting to write about precisely because his appeal lies beyond the power of words to express – even more so than with music generally. These are themes I return to in later essays on this site.