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BBC Documentaries: Season 2010

2010x27 Franz Peter Schubert: The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow
TV-PG

  • 2010-03-05T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Franz Schubert was undervalued in his own lifetime and for at least the next century because he died young and, for all the appreciation of his intimate circle of friends, he failed to achieve public recognition and financial success. He was the first great composer in western music to live by his art alone, without patronage, but he enjoyed only one public concert of his music in his lifetime. Christopher Nupen's documentary uses Schubert's words and music to help us feel closer to what the composer himself was trying to say. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven, at which Schubert was a torch bearer, and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote between then and his death.
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