Schubert letter up for auction ‘shows the composer’s optimistic personality’

First page of Franz Schubert’s letter (Sotheby’s/PA)

A letter written by Franz Schubert shortly before his death shows the composer’s “optimistic personality”, according to an expert from an auction house that is selling the document.

It is worth £100,000 to £150,000 and is the last surviving letter written by the Austrian composer, who died in 1828 at the age of 31, auction house Sotheby’s said.