Schubert's composerfriends and composerfoes

Schubert admired many great composers, especially Beethoven. He admired him so much that he insisted on carrying Beethoven's coffin at his funeral. Also, Schubert was burried where he wanted to, next to Beethoven. Schubert not only admired the great composers - Mozart, Bach and Haydn, he also admired the great poets of that time- Schiller Goethe, Heine and Müller.

Both Beethoven and Antonio Salieri liked Schubert very much. But many composers disliked Schubert, i.e. Wagner, Mendelsson and Liszt. Therefore I wonder:

Does anyone here feel like they like:
Schubert more than Wagner
Wagner more than Schubert
like both Schubert and Wagner much
or do you like to write it down:
(du får gärna skriva på svenska!)

or do you like some other composor even more than Schubert?


How did Schubert die?
Syphilis
Typhoid (in stomach)
something else (feel free to speculate)


But finally I think that is the best composer!
I live in a country or state in the US called:

So far a majority seems to like Schubert more than Wagner. Some people even hate Wagner! Everyone seems to agree that the two guys are very, very different!
And Schubert is the best! Maybe that is why the mean(!) Wagner disliked Schubert so much!
But one question has come to my mind; Shall you judge a composer by his life or by his music alone? Isn't a composers music a mirror of his life???

If you want your want your response to be published in the Cybertiad, please let me know.



Kristofer Andréasson 1997-2003
Resources: Naxos booklet CD 8.550476, CD 8.550555, CD 8.550259,
Decca booklet CD 430 425-2 and Linz booklet CD 48087
Marcheron, Annamaria, and others: De stora kompositörerna. Kungälv 1991
Please feel free to contact if any questions or suggestions kristofer
With reservations for any faults or errors in the texts.