History & The Arts
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
...table … (Quoted in Deutsch, 1946, p. 302) Vogl sang Schubert's songs with mastery, but not without dandyism. (Quoted in Deutsch, 1946, p. 573) Vogl had a habit of elaborating Schubert's vocal lines, as his surviving copies of the songs confirm. Nowadays, this would be considered shocking, though there is no report that Schubert objected to such liberties, and it is...