Someone asked about Schubert's compositional tendencies - I can't find the post. I refreshed my memory last might by looking through his sonatas, and confirmed what I thought: he wandered _a lot_. He moved constantly from key to key, often making sudden moves to very distant keys, "enharmonic modulation." This is especially true of his works for solo piano. I think that a WT would be very effective to accentuate this aspect of his style, though it is quite striking in ET as well. Also, looking at it historically, he was from the back woods in terms of progress (Vienna may have been a musical capital for composers, but it was a very conservative part of the world at the time). It is likely that traditions of tuning in Germanic areas would go back generations, and that the "fads of Paris" wouldn't have taken hold. So, though Montal's work was current with Schubert, there is ample reason to suppose that Schubert's harmonic/tuning world was more WT/MT than ET. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu
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