Franz peter schubert life and works

Franz Peter Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Vienna, Austria.

He received private lessons in composition from Salieri, who did more for Schubert’s training than any of his other teachers.

Legacy

Schubert is considered to be the first genuinely “Romantic” composer.

Opera was represented by no less than five works, of which three were completed—Der vierjährige Posten (D.190), Fernando (D.220) and Claudine von Villabella (D.239)—and two, Adrast (D.137) and Die Freunde von Salamanka (D.326), apparently left unfinished.

His compositions, particularly his Lieder, continue to influence musicians and composers today. Still, he continued to write prolifically and with great fervor, often completing scores in short time periods of creative passion. Of the Schuberts' 15 children (one illegitimate child was born in 1789), ten died in infancy; the surviving children included four sons Ignaz (b.

Much has been written about the neglect from which he suffered during his lifetime. His father Franz Theodor Florian, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother Elizabeth Vietz, was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith and had also been a housemaid for a Viennese family prior to her marriage.

The compositions of 1820 show a marked advance in development and maturity of style. His works were rarely performed, he enjoyed little patronage, and he relied on the support of friends and family. In 1822, he made the acquaintance both of Weber and of Beethoven, but little came of it in either case, though Beethoven cordially acknowledged his genius, the quote attributed to Beethoven being: "Truly, the spark of Divine genius resides in this Schubert!" Schober was away from Vienna; new friends appeared of a less desirable character; on the whole these were the darkest years of his life.

The concert was held at the hall of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna.

The years 1817-1818 were comparatively unfertile in composition, although the second public performance of a work of Schubert's (the first one had been the performance of the Mass in F-major in September 1814 in Lichtental)—an overture in the Italian style written as an avowed burlesque of Rossini—was performed at a Jail concert on March 1, 1818.

In 1872, a memorial to Franz Schubert was erected in Vienna's Stadtpark.

Immediately before Schubert's death, his friend Eduard von Bauernfeld recorded the existence of an additional symphony, dated 1828 (although this does not necessarily indicate the year of composition) named the "Letzte" or "Last" symphony.

Of these works the two former are written on a scale which would make their performances exceedingly difficult (Fierabras, for instance, contains over 1,000 pages of manuscript score), but Die Verschworenen is a bright attractive comedy, and Rosamunde contains some of the most charming music that Schubert ever composed.

It was the first germ of that amateur orchestra for which, in later years, many of his compositions were written.