Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.
Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
History provides no precise guidelines.
I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.