Fifty-Nine Favorite SongsThe last word has not been said about the Schubert song when its melody, accompaniment, atmosphere all the lovely externals of his music have been surveyed. There yet remains the ineffable quality of textual illumination to which all of these factors are bent. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians Inspired by the verse of the German romantic poets, Franz Schubert achieved glittering fame as a creator of the nineteenth century Lieder long before