Geoffrey Block

Schubert's Reputation from His Time to Ours Geoffrey Block

It was not until the end of the twentieth century that critics and scholars began to reinterpret Franz Schubert's departures from Beethoven's formal and stylistic characteristics, and to see these departures not as flaws but as strengths and hallmarks of a new paradigm. Schubert's Reputation from His Time to Ours tells the story of how and why this has happened.