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1828 was Schubert’s last year alive. As if predicting the bad times ahead, his friend Bauernfeld composed a poem for New Year’s Eve. ‘The pleasures of singing,’ he wrote, ‘they too will be gone’. Despite the air of pessimism, Schubert spent the evening with friends at Bogner’s coffee house. It…

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In Austria the symphony ruled all. Schubert’s compatriot Haydn wrote countless examples. His early symphonies were composed for Count Morzin, though when he became the vice-Kapellmeister at Esterházy nothing could stop him. Mozart performed a new symphony in almost every city he visited,…

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All week, our dear @FranzIsUnwell has been going on about #jausetime. He clearly has a voracious appetite. But those of us not familiar with the highways and byways of Austrian etiquette might need a little introduction to the idea of ‘Jause’. It means snack. But it’s more a custom than a…