he composed from childhood; he was taught, by the way, by antonio salieri, the same one whom evil tonguesssociated with the death of mozart. schubert wrote operas, symphonies, piano pieces, masses, but most of all he gravitated towards songs, words of german and austrian poets. he set goeth's balad to music. said that schubert was significantly ahead of the era in which he worked. 70 years ago, on march 26, 1954, the ussr officially recognized the german democratic republic of the gdr. this consolidated the division of germany, although the soviet leadership sought to preserve its unity. stalin. said that he was not going to dismember or destroy germany, as they wanted in london and washington. in moscow, they saw it as a peaceful and neutral state, a buffer between the west and the east, but the cold war began, and the former allies in 1949 created the federal republic of germany in their occupation zone, which joined nato. the answer was the creation of the gdr. already in the fifty-second year, the soviet government proposed to the west to restore united germany, but... they refused. t