56 Facts About Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

Franz Schubert's father gave him his first violin lessons and his elder brother gave him piano lessons, but Schubert soon exceeded their abilities.

Franz Schubert left the Stadtkonvikt at the end of 1813, and returned home to live with his father, where he began studying to become a schoolteacher.

In 1821, Franz Schubert was admitted to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde as a performing member, which helped establish his name among the Viennese citizenry.

Franz Schubert gave a concert of his own works to critical acclaim in March 1828, the only time he did so in his career.

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Franz Schubert died eight months later at the age of 31, the cause officially attributed to typhoid fever, but believed by some historians to be syphilis.

Today, Franz Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers in the history of Western music and his work continues to be admired.

Franz Schubert was the twelfth child of Franz Theodor Florian Schubert and Maria Elisabeth Katharina Vietz .

Franz Schubert's father, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a well-known parish schoolmaster, and his school in Lichtental had numerous students in attendance.

Franz Schubert came to Vienna from Zukmantel in 1784 and was appointed schoolmaster two years later.

Franz Schubert's mother was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith and had been a housemaid for a Viennese family before marriage.

At the age of five, Franz Schubert began to receive regular lessons from his father, and a year later he was enrolled at his father's school.

Franz Schubert's father gave him his first violin lessons when he was eight years old, training him to the point where he could play easy duets proficiently.

Franz Schubert played viola in the family string quartet, with his brothers Ferdinand and Ignaz on first and second violin and his father on the cello.

Young Franz Schubert first came to the attention of Antonio Salieri, then Vienna's leading musical authority, in 1804, when his vocal talent was recognized.

Franz Schubert was occasionally permitted to lead the Stadtkonvikt's orchestra, and it was the first orchestra he wrote for.

For over two years young Franz Schubert endured severe drudgery; there were compensatory interests even then.

Franz Schubert continued to take private lessons in composition from Salieri, who gave Schubert more actual technical training than any of his other teachers, before they parted ways in 1817.

Franz Schubert wanted to marry her, but was hindered by the harsh marriage-consent law of 1815 requiring an aspiring bridegroom to show he had the means to support a family.

In November 1816, after failing to gain a musical post in Laibach, Franz Schubert sent Grob's brother Heinrich a collection of songs retained by the family into the twentieth century.

Franz Schubert continued to teach at the school and give private musical instruction, earning enough money for his basic needs, including clothing, manuscript paper, pens, and ink, but with little to no money left over for luxuries.

Spaun was well aware that Franz Schubert was discontented with his life at the schoolhouse, and was concerned for Franz Schubert's development intellectually and musically.

In 1989 the musicologist Maynard Solomon suggested that Franz Schubert was erotically attracted to men, a thesis that has been heatedly debated.

The proposal was particularly opportune, for Franz Schubert had just made the unsuccessful application for the post of kapellmeister at Laibach, and he had decided not to resume teaching duties at his father's school.

Vogl, for whom Franz Schubert went on to write a great many songs, became one of Franz Schubert's main proponents in Viennese musical circles.

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Franz Schubert met Joseph Huttenbrenner, who played a role in promoting his music.

In late 1817, Franz Schubert's father gained a new position at a school in Rossau, not far from Lichtental.

Franz Schubert rejoined his father and reluctantly took up teaching duties there.

Franz Schubert was rejected on the basis that he was "no amateur", although he had been employed as a schoolteacher at the time and there were professional musicians already among the society's membership.

Franz Schubert spent the summer of 1818 as a music teacher to the family of Count Johann Karl Esterhazy at their chateau in Zseliz .

The other four, including Franz Schubert, were "severely reprimanded", in part for "inveighing against [officials] with insulting and opprobrious language".

That month, Franz Schubert composed a Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli, being one of the fifty composers who contributed to the Vaterlandischer Kunstlerverein publication.

Some members of the Gesellschaft, most notably Ignaz von Sonnleithner and his son Leopold von Sonnleithner, had a sizeable influence on the affairs of the society, and as a result of that and of Franz Schubert's growing reputation, his works were included in three major concerts of the Gesellschaft in 1821.

In 1822, Franz Schubert made the acquaintance of both Weber and Beethoven, but little came of it in either case; however, Beethoven is said to have acknowledged the younger man's gifts on a few occasions.

Franz Schubert composed the song Du bist die Ruh' during this year.

From 1826 to 1828, Franz Schubert resided continuously in Vienna, except for a brief visit to Graz, Austria, in 1827.

Franz Schubert expressed the wish, were he to survive his final illness, to further develop his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, and had actually made appointments for lessons with the counterpoint master Simon Sechter.

On 26 March 1828, the anniversary of Beethoven's death, Franz Schubert gave, for the only time in his career, a public concert of his own works.

Franz Schubert was generally unable to retain solid food and his condition worsened.

Franz Schubert died in Vienna, aged 31, on 19 November 1828, at the apartment of his brother Ferdinand.

Finally, meningo-vascular syphilis is unlikely because it presents as progressive stroke-like picture, and Franz Schubert had no neurological manifestation until his final delirium, which started only two days before his death.

Franz Schubert's argues that the syphilis diagnosis originated with Schubert's biographer Otto Deutsch in 1907, based on the aforementioned indirect references by his friends, and uncritically repeated ever since.

Franz Schubert's epitaph, written by his friend, the poet Franz Grillparzer, reads: Die Tonkunst begrub hier einen reichen Besitz, aber noch viel schonere Hoffnungen .

Franz Schubert composed a considerable number of secular works for two or more voices, namely part songs, choruses and cantatas.

Franz Schubert completed eight orchestral overtures and seven complete symphonies, in addition to fragments of six others.

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Franz Schubert wrote a large body of music for solo piano, including eleven incontrovertibly completed sonatas and at least eleven more in varying states of completion, numerous miscellaneous works and many short dances, in addition to producing a large set of works for piano four hands.

Franz Schubert wrote over fifty chamber works, including some fragmentary works.

Franz Schubert's last collection of songs, published in 1828 after his death, Schwanengesang, is an innovative contribution to German Lieder literature, as it features poems by different poets, namely Ludwig Rellstab, Heine, and Johann Gabriel Seidl.

When Franz Schubert died he had around 100 opus numbers published, mainly songs, chamber music and smaller piano compositions.

Since relatively few of Franz Schubert's works were published in his lifetime, only a small number of them have opus numbers assigned, and even in those cases, the sequence of the numbers does not give a good indication of the order of composition.

Franz Schubert was familiar with instruments by Viennese piano builder Conrad Graf.

Franz Schubert did enough; and let them be honoured who have striven and accomplished as he did", and the pianist Andras Schiff said that: "Schubert lived a very short life, but it was a very concentrated life.

In 1897, the 100th anniversary of Franz Schubert's birth was marked in the musical world by festivals and performances dedicated to his music.

In Vienna, there were ten days of concerts, and the Emperor Franz Joseph gave a speech recognising Schubert as the creator of the art song, and one of Austria's favourite sons.

In 1928, Franz Schubert Week was held in Europe and the United States to mark the centenary of the composer's death.

Works by Franz Schubert were performed in churches, in concert halls, and on radio stations.