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Title: Music for Our Time by Robert Winter ISBN: 0-534-13104-2 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $72.95

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Summary: Winter must have an ignorant ghostwriter
Comment: In Robert Winter's book 'Music for our Time', Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, California 1992, (p. 358) I stumbled over the following passage :

> 'FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797 - 1828)

Franz Schubert was the only Viennese Classicist born in Vienna, and except for an extended summer holiday in the west of Austria in 1825, he never ventured beyond the suburbs of that city. His father was a schoolmaster who taught boarding students in the family quarters, an activity that brought little income or social standing. Franz was the eleventh of twelve children, only four of whom survived infancy. He and his brothers all learned to play musical instruments and often came together in the evening to play chamber music.'

> The only part of this passage which doesn't contain a nonsensical error, is the title. Schubert was in Zseliz in 1818 and 1824, in Upper Austria in 1819, 1821 and 1823, in Graz, Gastein and Salzburg. Father Schubert didn't teach boarding students. Where should he have kept all the students? He was a regular school-teacher. Not four, but five children survived infancy. Ignaz, Ferdinand, Karl, Franz and Theresia (Winter has no idea that she existed) And Karl did not join the music-making, he was a painter (see Ferdinand Schubert's account from 1839).

This passage is equalled by an information on page 367, where Schober's caricature of Vogl and Schubert is attributed to Schwind. As I give everybody the benefit of learning and delayed blooming, I do hope that Robert Winter by now will have read at least the entry in Grove, which in 1992 he (or his ghostwriter) certainly hadn't.