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People In Music History
Schubert, Franz [Peter] (1797-1828) Austrian composer who was born and died in
Vienna, and hardly ever left it. At first a choirboy. Never held an official
musical post, and gained little recognition in life. But matured early: wrote
song Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel (Gretchen am Spinnrade) at 17. Often worked
very fast, once producing 8 songs in a day. Composed more than 600 songs of
great range and subtlety, regarded as founding the type of 19th-century German
song (Lied). Showed high individuality also in piano pieces, including sonatas,
dances, Wanderer Fantasy, Impromptus, Moments Musicaux; also wrote works for
piano duet. His admiration for Rossini is evident, e.g., in 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.) The Tragic Symphony is no. 4. Other works include Alfonso and
Estrella and other operas; music to the play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus;
piano quintet (Trout) and other chamber music; 6 Latin masses, and other church
music. Unmarried. Died of typhus. His works are indexed by D. numbers
(Deutsch).