It is alleged that Beethoven and Schubert met first in 1822, though there are doubts about the authenticity of accounts in support of this, which conflict with other testimonies. read more
We have one example of a partial copy of a song by Beethoven made by Schubert, which constitutes one of the very few documentary links between the two great Viennese contemporaries. 35 Schubert began to make a copy of one of Beethoven’s finest songs Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel (WoO150, composed 1820), writing out the first 24 bars and making a slight alteration to the accompaniment figure in bar 6. read more