![]() ![]() A year and a half later Schubert, too, had died. Schubert was one of the torch-bearers at his funeral. Schubert visited Beethoven on 19 March 1827. He was often desperately poor and composed in bed to keep warm.Īlthough Beethoven and Schubert lived in the same town they only met once, although they knew one another’s music. He had to leave the Schober’s house and find his own rooms. During the last few years of his life Schubert was ill. For a time he became music teacher for the two princesses of Count Johann Esterházy, but then he returned to Vienna to live with the Schober family. They were only interested in publishing works written by performers, but were not very interested in people like Schubert who just composed. He wrote so many wonderful pieces that it seems strange that the music publishers did not want to publish them. ![]() These meetings were called “Schubertiads” because they played and sung his music. Soon he had become well known in all the drawing-rooms in Vienna where he met famous people, many of them musicians. A man called Schober persuaded Schubert to give up teaching so that he could spend all his time composing. It was difficult to find enough time to compose because he was a teacher. He sent a very angry letter back saying he had not composed that rubbish. When it was first published another composer whose name was also Franz Schubert, thought that somebody had published a song in his name because the music publishers sent it to him for correction. Another song which soon made him famous in all Europe was "Erlkönig". The music stops for a moment when the girl imagines her lover is kissing her, then the piano gradually starts again. The piano has a gentle accompaniment which sounds like the throbbing of the spinning wheel. He wrote a song called "Gretchen am Spinnrade" which is about the young girl in the book sitting at a spinning wheel dreaming of her lover. 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 had 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. ![]() Rising fameīy the age of 17, Schubert was teaching at his father’s school. He had one strange thumb on his right hand. 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. ![]()
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