- Fact 2 - Franz Peter Schubert was
born on January 31, 1797
- Fact 3 - Schubert was born in
Vienna
- Fact 4 - When Schubert was born
Beethoven was 27 years old
- Fact 5 - Schubert was a
schoolmaster
- Fact 6 - He had his first music
lessons from his father, who was also a schoolmaster and who
played the violin
- Fact 7 - His brother taught him to
play the piano, and he studied singing so as to join the
Emperor's Choir
- Fact 8 - When Franz was 13 he
composed two piano pieces, at 14 he wrote two songs, and when he
was 16 he wrote a symphony
- Fact 9 - When he was 18 Franz wrote
more than a 100 songs
- Fact 10 - He composed The Erl-King
when he was 19
- Fact 11 - One of Schubert's most
beautiful symphonies was called The Unfinished, because he did
not live to complete it
- Schubert's Unfinished Symphony
consists of only two movements. It is dedicated to the
Musikverein of Graz which had made Schubert an honorary member
- Fact 12 - Schubert wrote over six
hundred songs, lots of piano pieces, nine symphonies, and many
other compositions
- Fact 13 - He died in Vienna in 1828
- Fact 14 - His music lives on and
the musical works of Schubert include the following:
- The Fifth symphony
The Eighth Symphony the "Unfinished"
Pianoworks for four hands
- Schubert arranged it for piano
four-hand so that he and his brother could play it.
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