Regarding your article (‘Utterly devastating’: Guardian writers on their favourite breakup songs, 14 February), no one does it like Franz Schubert – for example, Gute nacht (Goodnight) from the cycle Winterreise. Or, if your accompanist is up to it, Liebesbotschaft (Love’s Message). He never lived long enough to get the girl of his dreams. He died at 31, having written over 600 songs.
Keith Barnes
Frome, Somerset
• On the best year for film (1946 … 1999 …1971 … 2024? What was the best ever year for film?, 16 February), at the age of 17, I played truant from school for a matinee performance of Gone With the Wind at the local picture house. Had I been discovered and admonished, I’d like to think I would have said, “Frankly, Sir, I don’t give a damn”, as it was my favourite film at that time, and remains so today, at 87.
Peggy Flint
Seaford, East Sussex
