In terms of his achievement there is only one other composer to whom Franz Schubert can be compared: Mozart. Perhaps not as precocious as Mozart, Schubert was nonetheless already an accomplished composer as a teenager. In his brief thirty-one years, he created a life’s work of more than one thousand compositions, which include sublime masterpieces…
via Franz Schubert’s Music of Paradise Lost — The Imaginative Conservative
Progarchy 
You’ve got me headed toward my shelf of Schubert lieder. Must … resist …
If any Progarchists can, they should really head to Ann Arbor this Sunday to hear Ian Bostridge sing Schubert’s Winterreise. Hearing him sing live 10+ years ago was utterly engrossing:
https://ums.org/performance/schuberts-winterreise/
Failing that:
Or, if you just want a teaser, this song was featured in last week’s episode of VIctoria on Masterpiece. Ian sings it much better than Jenna Coleman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSo5yUxgohA
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Oh, and FYI, Bostridge has an earned doctorate in modern history from Oxford. Not too shabby:
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