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17 Schubert’s piano works were slow to gain acceptance in France, where they were long misunderstood and, even more certainly, underestimated . . . It’s true that in my student years at the Paris Conservatoire, people hardly ever played the music of Schubert, which moreover was not at all well known. He was regarded as essentially a song composer. Before the war, in the 1930s, few people were shocked to hear his lieder sung in French. That was just the way it was. JEAN-MARC LUISADA