Franz Schubert and the essence of melody

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For Schubert, song was Alpha and Omega, and he poured forth an inexhaustible stream of rapt melody. The profusion of melodic ideas is such that one gladly excuses his initial unwillingness to master instrumental, and indeed symphonic and contrapuntal, style.

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