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Sunday Feature: The Spirit of Schubert - Claiming Schubert

Series 1, episode 0

John Tusa explores the many and varied ways in which Schubert has been used and reinvented after his death, in politics, art and literature. Who has claimed Schubert - and why? And what are the different things that he has come to represent since his death in 1837? He has in the past been adopted by the Romantics, in a feminine context, and also by some political leaders, who linked him to fascism. John also hears how novelist George Eliot and painter Gustav Klimt refashioned Schubert and brought a different view of him to a wider public