Piano Trio No. 1 (Schubert)  

"It is often found that music which wears a definable expression to one person, does not wear it or wears a different one to another, though the music may be equally enjoyed by both. For instance, the great 'subject' of the first movement of Schubert's B flat trio, the opening of which was quoted on p. 326, represents to me and many others the ne plus ultra of energy and passion ; yet this very movement was described by Schumann as 'tender, girlish, confiding' and the reiteration of the bass figure in the adagio of Beethoven's fourth symphony, which has always seemed to me quite tremendous in its earnestness, appeared to Schumann as a humorous feature."--The Power of Sound (1880) by Edmund Gurney