Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

This prolific composer's music straddled two eras: the classical of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and the romantic of Mendelsson and Schumann. Sadly, his symphonies, sonatas, chamber works, and songs, were not published until after his untimely death at the age of thirty one. His musical settings of Goethe, Fredrich Schiller, and Heinrich poems have endured for almost two hundred years.