Concert· Stuttgart
Freudenschauer
What a find! In 1839, eleven years after Franz Schubert’s untimely death, Robert Schumann discovered a stack of scores in the composer’s estate in Vienna, sending a ‘shiver of joy’ through him; among them was a Symphony in C major of epic scale, masterful quality and ‘bright, blossoming Romanticism’ that could not have been more impressive. Schumann hastened to present it to the world and passed i