Here's what others have said about Schubert:

Mozart grew up in public, but Schubert was a home boy, musically speaking: most of the first performances of his pieces took place at chamber music evenings in someone's house. The early mixture of teenage passions and homey charm developed in those parlors set the scene for his greatest music ­ hey, it reminds me of my teenage years in Fargo, North Dakota, except that I had, certainly, less inspiration, and, probably, more acne than young Franz did. But the home's a good place for music: it grows well there. ­ Peter Schickele

"Schubert charms you into thinking his thoughts." ­ Aaron Copland (in "Copland on Music)

Debussy on Schubert's songs:

"They are offensive. They have the odor of bureau drawers of provincial old maids ­ ends of faded ribbon… out of date photographs!"

Schumann on the hour-long Symphony #9 in C "Great":

"A heavenly length!"

"I play Beethoven for money; I play Schubert for love!" ­ Artur Schnabel

"All of my life his music has been perhaps nearer to my heart than any other - that crystal stream welling and welling forever." ­ Dame Ethyl Smythe ("Impressions that Remained")

"He [will] attract much attention in the world." ­ Beethoven

"Schubert is authentic. . . . Schubert writes as he thinks, feels and speaks, and his thoughts, feelings and words are faithfully reflected in the notes of his music." ­ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

On his deathbed, the author Thomas Mann wanted to hear Schubert's String Quintet in C.

His friend, the poet Mayrhofer said: "His character was a mixture of tenderness and coarseness, sensuality and candor, sociability and melancholy."

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