I took this photo of a stained-glass window in the
University of Pittsburgh’s Heinz Memorial Chapel when I was on vacation in the
area last October. Franz Schubert is depicted here as part of the larger Heritage
Window in the chapel, along with other great musicians and poets.
It seems appropriate, in this time of deep and
growing grief, to recall a sublime classical composer heavily associated with
death. In 1818, Schubert composed the German
Requiem. He died 10 years later, and it would be longer still (1865) before
the world heard the premiere of one of his most moving compositions: Symphony No. 8 in B minor—more commonly
called the “Unfinished Symphony.”
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