Mikayla Strik

E ARLY LIFE Schubet was born January 31,1797 in Vienna, Austria. When he was very young his father and his older brother taught him to play the violin and the piano. In a couple of months he had learnt more about playing the piano than his brother knew. So when the family realized Franz's abilities they did everything they could with their little income to procure a good education for the boy. He was therefore sent to the Stadtkonvikt in Vienna. Here he met Antonio Salieri who was very impressed by him: "He must be taught by God himself", he said.

Son of Franz Theodor Schubert, and his wife, Elisabeth Ferdinand Schubert, Karl Schubert, Ignaz Schubert, Maria Theresia Schubert are his siblings. Never married and no kids.

S CHUBERT ’ S C OMPOSITIONS  In a short lifespan of less than 32 years, Schubert was a prolific composer, writing some 600 Lieder, ten complete or nearly complete symphonies (including the most famous of the incomplete ones, the "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and solo piano music.  Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, weiss was ich leide  Gretchen am Spinnrade  Der Erlkönig  Heidenröslein h h

MAJOR WORK!!!  As known as “the unfinished symphony No. 8” The Symphony No. 8, called “Unfinished”, is different from all the other symphonies. Schubert promised to compose it in 1823, as a form of acknowledgement to the musical society in Styria which appointed him emeritus member. He put his friend Anselme Hϋttenbrenner in charge of the composition of the two first movements, then he started the third one, the Scherzo, but he didn’t finish it. On the contrary, he dedicated himself to the composition of his opera, Fierrabras and, probably, never composed the fourth movement. Hϋttenbrenner revealed the existence of the Symphony only after Schubert’s death. In 1865, the director Johann von Herbeck decided to complete it with the last movement of the 3 rd Symphony in D major (1815). Finally, the Entr’acte of Rosamunde’s scene, composed in the same year as the “Unfinished” Symphony, was chosen as a possible ending for it. In the 20 th century, several attempts were made to finish the Symphony: Frank Merrick and Felix Weingartner first, then Joseph Holbrooke and Geoffrey Bush, and more recently Anton Safronov

D EATH ! Died November 19, 1828 in Vienna, Austria On November 11, Schubert began suffering from nausea and headache. Five days later the doctors diagnosed typhoid fever (a bacteria-caused disease marked with fever and the swelling of intestines).

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