Listen to full audiobooks for free on :#adhttps://amzn.to/499CVn8Title: Life & Works - Franz SchubertAuthor: Jeremy SiepmannNarrator: Jeremy Siepmann, Tom George, Peter Yapp, Stephen Critchlow, Sean Barrett, Jonathan Keeble, Charlie SimpsonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 4 hrs and 30 minsLanguage: EnglishRelease date: 11-13-12Publisher: Naxos AudioBooksGenres: Arts & Entertainment, MusicSummary:The life of Franz Schubert has been a gift to romantically inclined biographers: the beautiful, brilliant, modest boy who sprang to fully fledged genius at the age of 16; the quintessential "artist in a garret", entirely consumed by his art and living a hand-to-mouth existence in Vienna (home of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven); the gentle, cheerful, convivial young man who prized friendship almost as highly as music itself; the unworldly poet from whom great music poured like water from a fountain; the unrecognized master who died almost penniless at the age of 31. And most of this is true. But, as revealed in this dramatized biography (lavishly illustrated with musical examples), there was a secret, darker side to Schubert which only renders his story that much more fascinating.Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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