Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Born in Vienna, Austria
• Learned to play violin, piano organ

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Wrote form of music called lieder,
  plural for lied, a German song for
  singer piano accompaniment.
• Most lieder were love songs about roses, mill
  streams or other pretty things, but some of them
  were about nasty spirits in the wood, broken
  hearts, etc.

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Not well known while alive
• Only gave one public concert
• Had a hard time finding someone who would publish
  his music
• The music that was published did not sell very
  well

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Even though he died at a young age, he wrote much
  music
• Around 600 lieder, 19 string quartets, 10 operas,
  many piano sonatas, chamber music symphonies
• Die Forelle (The Trout)
• Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning
  Wheel)
• Unfinished Symphony (only did 2 movements of
  Symphony No. 8)