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In this outstanding book, which is beautifully and imaginatively written, the whole story of Schubert's life is studied afresh, with the aid of all the available material. Maurice Brown is a first-rate critic of Schubert's work, which he knows intimately and which he assesses with an extraordinarily keen insight based on the deepest affection, but always informed by the most penetrating and entirely objective discrimination. Written both biographically and critically with an evident love of the subject, and in such a way as to inspire the reader with that same enthusiasm and interest. Although not in any way a professional music critic, historian or general writer on music, Maurice Brown has, in a quiet, modest, unobtrusive but very authoritative way, established himself as by far the most percipient and knowledgeable Schubert scholar in England today, and this book will confirm that reputation still further. -- Book jacket.