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Schubert’s Winterreise was composed in 1827 one year before his death at the age of 31. In 1822, Schubert contracted syphilis – an incurable disease at the time – and it was against a background of declining health as well as depression that the twenty-four songs that make up the cycle were written. In anContinue reading “Programme note for a performance of Schubert’s Winterreise”