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FRANZ SCHUBERT [PETER]
(1797-1828)
Austrian composer who was born and
died in Vienna,
and hardly ever left it.
At first a choir-boy. Never held an official musical
post,
and gained little recognition in his life.
But matured early - wrote song 'Gretchen at the Spinning
Wheel' (Gretchen am Spinnrade) at 17; often worked very fast, once producing
eight songs in a day.
Composed more than 600 songs of great range and subtlety, regarded as
founding the type of
German song (Lied); showed high individuality also in piano pieces - including
sonatas, dances,
'Wanderer Fantasy', impromptus, Moments Musicaux, wrote also works for piano (Marche
Militaire).
His admiration for Rossini is evident e.g. his Overture in the Italian Style
for Beethoven, in his
string quartets (15 including 'Death and the Maiden'), and also a quartet
movement) and
symphonies - of which he never heard a performance of No. 8 (Unfinished), or of No.
9 (and last,
the great C-major (this is sometimes called No.7, but the symphony properly so-called
is in E,
left in skeleton form and completed e.g. by J. F. Barnett and by Weingartner.
For another possible symphony see Gasten.
The 'Tragic Symphony' is No. 4, other works include 'Alphonso and Estrella'
and other operas;
Music to the play 'Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus'; piano quintet (THE TROUT) and other
chamber
music; six Latin masses, and other church music.
Unmarried. Died of typhus. His works are indexed by 'D' numbers.
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