Hellborn

As she continues her fascinating survey of Schubert reception in the nineteenth century, Clark concludes that Schubert's first biographer Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn in 1865 "made a modest effort to deflate Vogl 's image of Schubert," whereas Sir George Grove, Schubert's second major biographer, "made every effort to revive it" in the first edition of A Dictionary of Music and Musicians published in four volumes between 1879 and 1889 (p.

Moreover, they prompt us to ask if we still want to accept the implication of Schubert's first biographer, Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn (1812-1869), that the composer lacked the ability to make up his own mind about poetry.