This is a long lost biography of the composer Franz Peter Schubert. It dates from 1886, and has been updated and enhanced by over 400 scholarly notes. It was written by Joseph Bennett an English music critic and librettist. Despite being one of the earliest Schubert biographies in English, it is not well known, presumably because it was not published as a book, but as a series of 9 articles in the magazine The Musical Times, between January and September 1886. It is sufficiently unknown that it does not appear in the big Schubert bibliography from Willi Kahl in...