Franz Schubert: The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow

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Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film:
"Schubert died young and for all the appreciation of his intimate circle of friends, he was undervalued in his own lifetime - and for at least a century afterwards - because he failed to achieve public recognition and financial success. He was the first great composer in Western music to live by his art alone, without patronage, and he enjoyed only one public concert of his music in the whole of his life. When he died at the age of 31, his friend, Franz Grillparzerparzer, saddened and well-intentioned, but misguided, wrote this epitaph, “Music has buried here great riches, but far fairer hopes”.
Those words remain on Schubert's tombstone and perpetuate what I see as an astonishingly durable misconception: that Schubert never achieved complete maturity because he died young and that he failed to reach the level of the greatest masters. In my view both of those ideas are manifestly untrue.
The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven, at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music written by Schubert in the 20 months that remained to him after that date, together with quotations from his letters and diaries, and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.
Our title, The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow, is drawn from a dream which Schubert wrote down on 3 July 1822 and which is quoted in full in the film."

An Allegro Film by Christopher Nupen

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