Bach, Mozart, Beethoven laid the groundwork of musical expression. I don't think there is a human being with ears out there that wouldn't appreciate Schubert's music, if given the chance. And, if it's performed well. Schubert's canon is amazing.

I think Schubert was able to complete his musical ideas unlike many composers before and after him. He could consistently make a melody complete, unlike Bizet for instance, the composer of the opera 'Carmen'. In Carmen, there are many, many wonderful tunes, but few of them are really completed. Bizet might have had a little ADD. But Schubert could really flesh it all out. His powers of concentration were phenomenal especially considering his partying lifestyle.

Some of his greatest songs were set to poems by Wilhelm Müller who said:
"In truth, my [poems] lead only half a life, a paper life, black on white ... until music imparts to them the breath of life, or calls it forth and awakens it." [Letter to Bernhard Klein, 15 December 1822]

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