Topic: Franz Schubert

[San Antone]

I prefer reading about and listening to the music and ignoring the personal/biographic aspects of a composer's life unless it figures directly in the creation of a work.

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

I'll take a drunken Schubert over any living composer, and most of the dead ones. 

I'm cryin' here, and not in my beer.

[LKB]

I'm cryin' here, and not in my beer.

Oops... apologies Karl, that was thoughtless of me.

[k a rl h e nn i ng]

Oops... apologies Karl, that was thoughtless of me.

Spoken like a gentleman!

[Iota]

A portly, five-foot tall man nicknamed 'Schwammerl', who died at age 31 of syphilitic-related maladies, contracted some 6 years earlier, and was keen to break crockery whilst imbibing, would not lay in the category of attractive for me.

But, there is someone for everyone, I suppose. 

VS

Reading that I remembered a picture of the younger Schubert, when he did seem to sport kind of boy band-ish looks for a while. Clearly they didn't survive into his maturity.