sentences: "In his 1960 study of Sullivan's music Gervase Hughes also detects echoes of Schumann, and of Schubert as well.In a 2000 analysis, Andrew Lamb comments that the symphony predates the well known symphonies of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Dvořák, and concurs with earlier analysts that the principal influences on Sullivan's score were Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn.