Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
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The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
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But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
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Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.
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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
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