Franz Schubert · 1827 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote these eight piano pieces the year before he died and somehow made restraint feel like the whole point.

Franz Schubert · 1823 Spin it Again - Schubert was twenty-six, already sick, and this is what quiet fury sounds like when someone stops trying to convince you of anything.

Franz Schubert · 1828 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote this in the last weeks of his life and somehow made the slowest movement on the piano feel like it has nowhere to be and all the time in the world.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1826 Spin it Again - Beethoven's last completed quartet, written months before he died, and he still had the nerve to ask *Muss es sein?* over a four-note motif like the answer was going to surprise him.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1825 Spin it Again - Beethoven wrote this while recovering from a near-fatal illness in 1825, and you can hear every hour of that convalescence in the slow movement he literally titled a thanksgiving to God.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1827 Spin it Again - Seven movements played without pause, written by a man who couldn't hear a note of it, and somehow that's the least remarkable thing about it.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1824 Spin it Again - Beethoven was completely deaf when he wrote it, and you can hear exactly what that does to a man who still had something left to say.