Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4

Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4

Today I’d like to share with you Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 4.  After he finished it, he gave it the title “Tragic.” Schubert became one of my favorite composers later in my life.  I find an incredible emotional depth in his music, which is full of pain and sorrow. 

This music could not have been written by a happy person – and he was not (I wrote about Schubert’s life here).  His life was tragic (just like this symphony) and we, the listeners, are the primary beneficiaries of the suffering that he poured into creativity and this remarkable work.

Vitaliy Katsenelson is the CEO at IMA, a value investing firm in Denver. He has written two books on investing, which were published by John Wiley & Sons and have been translated into eight languages. Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is his first non-investing book. You can get unpublished bonus chapters by forwarding your purchase receipt to bonus@soulinthegame.net.