![]() Both composers were later exhumed and reburied in the Central Cemetery of Vienna. 1828 and was buried near to Beethoven at Währing. It made a profit for him, but none of the city's mus. 1828 gave a public concert of his works in Vienna. All Schubert's mus., even the happiest, has a tinge of sadness the works of his last years, when illness increasingly afflicted him, are at an extreme of poignancy. To them belong the song-cycle Winterreise, the E♭ pf. The last 2 years of Schubert's short life are fully documented in Schubert: The Final Years by John Reed (1972). Scholarship is equally divided over what personal contact there was between Schubert and Beethoven, but incontrovertibly Schubert was a torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral in 1827 and had earlier visited him on his deathbed. (No.9), usually ascribed to 1828 but now thought to date from 1825. of which no trace has been found, but modern scholarship tends to take the view that this is the ‘Great’ C major Sym. ![]() At Gmunden and Gastein said to have comp. In the summer of 1825, joined Vogl for a 5-month tour of Austria, composing all the time. ![]() At Zseliz in 1824 with the Esterházy family, wrote A minor str. some of the songs of the song-cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Ill-health began to trouble Schubert in 1823 while in hospital that year comp. for Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern, a play by Helmina von Chézy (librettist of Euryanthe) which ran for 2 perfs. Schubert heard Weber conduct Der Freischütz and Euryanthe in Vienna and himself wrote several stage works between 18, the operas Alfonso und Estrella and Der häusliche Krieg, and incidental mus. is a complete work of art in itself as it stands. Barnett, 1884, Felix Weingartner, 1935, and Brian Newbould, 1977). (several musicians have ‘completed’ it, among them J. In 1821 sketched his 7th Sym., in E major, but left it unorch. Among new associates were painters Leopold Kupelweiser and Moriz von Schwind, and musician Franz Lachner. In 1820–1, the Schubert circle of friends changed as some members left Vienna. in this period were the ‘Trout’ Quintet, written at Steyr, Upper Austria, during holiday in 1819 with Vogl, the oratorio Lazarus, setting of Psalm 23, Wanderer Fantasy, and the Quartettsatz. for Die Zauberharfe was used at the Theater an der Wien. ![]() in Vienna in June 1820, with Vogl singing the roles of the twin brothers and in Aug. His Singspiel, Die Zwillingsbrüder, received 6 perfs. On return to Vienna, Schubert lived with Mayrhofer and Hültenbrenner, latter acting as factotum, assembling Schubert's MSS. In 1818 spent summer as teacher to the 2 daughters of Count Johann Esterházy at summer estate at Zseliz, where he heard Slav and gipsy folk-mus. he had written in imitation of Rossini, whose operas were all the rage in Vienna from 1816. Apart from church mus., the first public concert of Schubert's mus. Michael Vogl, one of the outstanding opera singers of the day, who became the foremost interpreter of his songs, often acc. They talked, drank, discussed the questions of the day, and made mus. In 1817 he abandoned teaching and lived in Vienna with one or other of his friends, among whom the poet Mayrhofer was the closest. Altogether wrote over 600 songs, of which about 200 are different settings of poems he had already set-he set some poems (particularly those by Goethe and Schiller) up to 6 times. 1814 set Goethe's Gretchen am Spinnrade, his first masterpiece and the song that, it is inaccurately but understandably said, gave birth to the Lied. Frequently attended opera in Vienna and wrote his first opera, Des Teufels Lustschloss in 1814, the first of many stage works, none of which was successful. schoolmaster to father, but continued to compose prolifically. Became pupil of Salieri for theory, 1812. ![]() to imperial chapel, living in the Konvikt. Son of impoverished schoolmaster, who was his first teacher. Schubert, Franz (Seraph Peter) ( b Vienna, 1797 d Vienna, 1828). ![]()
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