Robert Peters wrote:

>Is Schubert the best of all Lieder composers?

Yes.

>Is he is what makes him the best?

His gift for enchanting melodies with singular and chillingly fitting
piano accompaniments.

>Is there something you don't like about his Lieder composing?

No.

By purest coincidence, I'm listening to the recording of Matthias Goerne
singing *Die Schoene Muellerin* w/ Eric Schneider at the piano as I'm
writing this.

Walter Meyer, who realizes the presumptuousness of his respons since
he hasn't heard every Lied by every composer, but hasn't heard any that,
in his opinion surpass Schubert's Lieder either.  Brahms and maybe Britten
come close.  So do Wagner (Wesendonck Songs) and Strauss (Four Last
Songs); forget about Hugo Wolf!