If the Schu Fits

[mn dave]

 

[North Star]

D.887.

[Brahmsian]

For me, Schumann over the last year or so has considerably narrowed the gap (over Schubert).  In fact, there no longer is a gap.  Love their music both equally, and enormously.

So I guess I have to pick the 3rd option. 

[Todd]

Love me some Schumann.  But Schubert is better.

[mn dave]

Love me some Schumann.  But Schubert is better.

Agreed.

[The new erato]

Schut up.

Schubert it is.

[mn dave]

Not sure how this got locked but now it's un-.

[Todd]

Not sure how this got locked

A cabal of Schumann lovers . . .

[TheGSMoeller]

Both great. But only one composed the Andante con moto for their C Major Symphony No. 9.

[Todd]

Both great.

Yes.  Both, possibly, top ten ever.

[amw]

Schumann's music has been more consistently important to me, but Schubert is like an ex-boyfriend I sometimes drunk dial at three in the morning begging him to take me back. If anything, a comparison to romantic love underplays how much Schubert's music has meant to me at various points in my life. I'm not really objective enough to judge either of their "greatness" (like the other two composers in my top 4, these are musical attachments I formed at a pretty young age which aren't necessarily related to the relative quality of their output) so I will also have to vote for the third option.

Although maybe I should have voted for Schumann just to even it out a little. >.>

[kishnevi]

From Wikipedia's list of composer names

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
Julius Schulhoff (Šulhov) (1825–1898)
Gunther Schuller (born 1925)
Andrew Schultz (born 1969)
Johannes Schultz (1582–1653)
Mark Schultz (born 1970)
Svend Simon Schultz (born 1913)
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800)
Klaus Schulze (born 1947)
William Schuman (1910–1992)
Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Ludwig Schuncke (1810–1834)
Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673–1751)
Joseph Schuster (1748–1812)
Eduard Schütt (1856–1933)
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)


Personally,  I'd go for Schutz.

[Bogey]

Based on you recent purchase Dave I would choose Charles M. Schulz.

[amw]

From Wikipedia's list of composer names

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
Julius Schulhoff (Šulhov) (1825–1898)
Gunther Schuller (born 1925)
Andrew Schultz (born 1969)
Johannes Schultz (1582–1653)
Mark Schultz (born 1970)
Svend Simon Schultz (born 1913)
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800)
Klaus Schulze (born 1947)
William Schuman (1910–1992)
Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Ludwig Schuncke (1810–1834)
Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673–1751)
Joseph Schuster (1748–1812)
Eduard Schütt (1856–1933)
Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672)

Also don't forget:

Schubert, Camille
Schubert, François
Schubert, Franz Anton
Schubert, Franz Ludwig
Schubert, Johannes
Schubert, Joseph
Schuberth, Carl
Schuberth, Louis
Schuëcker, Edmund
Schulhof, Otto
Schulthesius, Johann Paul
Schulthess, Walter
Schultz, Charles
Schultz, Leonard
Schultze, Adolf
Schultze, Clemens
Schultze, Johann Christoph
Schultze, Max
Schultze-Biesantz, Clemens
Schulz, L. J.
Schulz, Max
Schulz-Beuthen, Heinrich
Schulz-Evler, Adolf
Schulz-Weida, Joseph
Schumann, Camillo
Schumann, Georg
Schumann, Gustav
Schumann, Karl
Schunk, Florian
Schuppan, Adolf
Schürer, Johann Georg
Schuster, Ignaz
Schuster, Vincenz
Schütze, Friedrich Wilhelm

http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:Composers&from=Schu

We're spoiled for choices really

[Brian]

like the other two composers in my top 4, these are musical attachments I formed at a pretty young age which aren't necessarily related to the relative quality of their output

Name 'em, please?

My respect/love for Schumann has been increasing by huge amounts this year. There's only one other composer who's earning a bigger spot on my personal radar... and that's Schubert.

[amw]

Name 'em, please?

Beethoven (the first composer I became obsessed with in a big way, sometime around 2nd grade; "the one to beat") and Bartók ("key to the 20th century" and the composer whose music I've absorbed more thoroughly than any other's).

They were a trinity with Schubert for a long time; Schumann only appeared when I started devoting real thought and attention to composition, and recognised in his music so many of the same concerns and insecurities that I myself was dealing with, though very different in style and affect. He's therefore the only one who's really a "kindred spirit" as I delude myself into thinking.

[DavidW]

Good to see it unlocked.  Schubert for the string quintet, piano trios and late string quartets.

[mn dave]

Based on you recent purchase Dave I would choose Charles M. Schulz.

[mn dave]

We're spoiled for choices really

No one cares about those other guys.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Schumann is great but Schubert will stare at your soul if you even consider putting Schumann above him.