One of his favourite books was Goethe’s Faust. He often went to the opera where he heard some of the finest music of the time. He still took composition lessons from Antonio Salieri. He had been rejected by the army because he was too short (shorter than five feet) and his sight was very poor. He had one strange thumb on his right hand.Īt the age of 17, Schubert was teaching at his father’s school. His stepmother was very kind to him and often lent him money. By the age of 16 he had composed a lot of music, including his first symphony. He wrote his first string quartets for them to play. In the holidays he played string quartets with his two brothers and his father. He was also very good at other subjects in school. His teachers were all amazed at how quickly he learned. As a boy, the young Franz learned the violin, piano, organ, singing and harmony. Schubert's father tried to persuade his sons to help at the school when they grew up. Twelve children were born into the family, but only four of them lived to become adults. He was the last great composer of the Classical music period, and one of the first of the Romantic period. There were other great composers who lived and worked in Vienna: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, but Schubert is the only one who was born in Vienna. Although he died at the age of 31, he composed over one thousand pieces of music. ![]() ![]() ( February 2015)įranz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797, Vienna – 19 November 1828, Vienna) was an Austrian composer. You can help Wikipedia by finding good sources, and adding them.
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