Beskrivelse
The first thing that I like about the book is the overall plan. Instead of dealing with his subject’s life in the first half of the volume and his compositions in the second, Einstein discusses the works more or less as they occur chronologically in Schubert’s biography. He bends the rigidly chronological approach to a certain extent — usually with a bit of complaining — in order not to fragment the treatment of works that belong together logically, but he is surely right in his view that Schubert had so little by way of a life, and was so prolific as a composer, that the sense of imbalance had he adopted the `binary’ scheme would have been grotesque.
