Abstract
Joseph Lanz is known solely for his part in one of the most mysterious incidents in Schubert's life: accompanying the composer, just two weeks before his untimely death, to the first and only lesson in a doomed course of study with Simon Sechter. Although Otto Erich Deutsch knew that Lanz had written an account of his friendship with Schubert, it was thought to be lost. The newly recovered rough draft of Lanz's reminiscences, presented here in both the original German and an annotated translation, is important not only because it reveals new biographical details about Schubert, but also because music itself—Schubert's compositions, his musical opinions, and technical discussions about compositional technique—is the dominant topic. Archival research establishing new biographical facts about Lanz is included, and this new primary source is discussed within the context of the previously known descriptions of Schubert's decision to study with Sechter. Lanz typifies the shocking early attitude to Schubert, seeing him as a good ‘natural’ composer, who was nevertheless lacking in technical ability.
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