Strophic and "composed through"--Schubert the first song
composer to require consideration; also the greatest--Early
struggles--Too poor to buy music paper--Becomes a
school-teacher--Impatient under drudgery--Publishers hold
aloof--Fortune for a song, but not for him--History of "The
Erlking"--How it was composed--Written down as fast as pen
could travel--Tried over the same evening--The famous
dissonances--As sung by Lilli Lehmann--Schubert only eighteen
years old when he composed "The Erlking"--His marvelous
fecundity--Died at thirty-one, yet wrote six hundred songs and
many other works--Schumann's individuality--Distinguished from
Schubert--Not the same proportion of great songs--The best
composed during his wooing of Clara--Phases of Franz's
genius--Traces of his knowledge and admiration of Bach--Choice
of keys--Objected to transpositions--Pitiable physical
disabilities--Brahms a profound thinker in music--Jensen,
Rubinstein, Grieg, Chopin, Wagner--Liszt one of the greatest of
song composers--Richard Strauss, Hugo Wolf and others 231