Jon Johanning wrote concerning Schubert: >He was working on a 10th. The performing version I have heard sounds >rather mundane, after the preceding 9, but after all this was just a >sketch, and he probably would have done a lot more with it. On the other >hand, could it be that his fount of inspiration was finally starting to >dry up? Generally agreed, but the slow movement is on an altogether higher plane and presages Mahler, although I don't know how much of a hand AN Other may have had in it. I urge anyone unfamiliar with the 10th to try it, if only for that movement. Richard Pennycuick [log in to unmask]