Long-standing characterisation of Schubert's music as "feminine"

Question 1

Maynard Solomon - evidence from Schubert’s diaries/letters

Answer 1

Anton Ottenwalt - member of the Schubert circle

Question 2

Evidence from Anton Ottenwalt

Answer 2

Letter of 1825 to Joseph von Spaun observed that Schubert was subject to “the passions of an eagerly burning sensuality”

Question 3

Evidence from Josef Kenner, Schubert’s friend

Answer 3

Schubert’s body “succumbed to the cleavage in his - souls”

“one which pressed heavenwards and the other bathed in slime”

Question 4

George Grove 1951

Answer 4

“Another equally true saying of Schumann is that, compared with Beethoven, Schubert is as a woman to a man.”