Reflections of a stormy petrel

I'm pleased and not surprised to see I share two of your randomly-chosen interests, though they're not listed on my lj: Aeschylus & Schubert. My translations of Oresteia are Cooke, Vellecott & Lattimore. Who published Fagles? With Schubert.... ah. Not sure why I don't have him down on my lj. I go through cycles, and when I was putting interests down, I was listening to a lot of early choral music, less symphonic music. There are many great melodists, but no matter who is or isn't included, Schubert would always be there. I know of no one with a surer sense of tender beauty. Listening to him, no matter what song or symphony, what piano work or quartet, is always a pleasure & a delight. As with Mozart, his early death is one of the great tragedies of Western Civilization.