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  1. Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder (posthumous, 1875, after an 1825 watercolour done from life) Franz Peter Schubert (German: [fʁants ˈpeːtɐ ˈʃuːbɐt]; 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

    • Early Years
    • Rising Fame
    • Adulthood
    • His Music

    Schubert’s father was a schoolteacher. Twelve children were born into the family, but only four of them lived to become adults. Schubert's father tried to persuade his sons to help at the school when they grew up. As a boy, the young Franz learned the violin, piano, organ, singing and harmony. He soon became very good at them all. His teachers were...

    At the age of 17, Schubert was teaching at his father’s school. He had been rejected by the army because he was too short (shorter than five feet) and his sight was very poor. He still took composition lessons from Antonio Salieri. He often went to the opera where he heard some of the finest music of the time. He liked reading. One of his favourite...

    It was difficult to find enough time to compose because he was a teacher. A man called Schober persuaded Schubert to give up teaching so that he could spend all his time composing. Soon he had become well known in all the drawing-rooms in Vienna where he met famous people, many of them musicians. These meetings were called “Schubertiads” because th...

    Schubert’s pieces are among the greatest ever written. They are all settings of German poems. German art songs are called Lieder (pronounced “leader”), and Schubert made his Lieder very special by making the piano accompaniments describe the action of the songs in many different ways. If you try to sing them in a translation it is difficult to make...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Musicians. Classical Musicians. Franz Schubert is considered the last of the classical composers and one of the first romantic ones. Schubert's music is notable for its melody and...

  3. Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an extremely prolific Austrian composer. He composed some 1500 works (or, when collections, cycles and variants are grouped, some thousand compositions). The largest group are the lieder for piano and solo voice (over six hundred), and nearly as many piano pieces.

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  5. Franz Peter Schubert (* 31. Jänner 1797 in der Gemeinde Himmelpfortgrund, heute im 9. Bezirk Wiens; † 19. November 1828 in Wieden, jetzt 4. Bezirk) war ein österreichischer Komponist . Obwohl Franz Schubert schon im Alter von 31 Jahren starb, hinterließ er ein reiches und vielfältiges Werk.

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