Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert

By Giovanni Rodriguez

A composer of the Classical Era

• Franz Schubert’s father was a schoolteacher, and everyone in the Schubert family enjoyed and played music.

• Franz received music lessons from his father and his older brothers.

• attended a boychoir school where he sang in the choir and played violin in the orchestra.

• He began to compose while he was a student.

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Who were the ones that taught Franz Schubert music lessons?

• his brothers and father

• his mother and sisters

• his aunt and uncle

• his uncle and cousins

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Besides singing, what instrument did Schubert play in the orchestra?

• the banjo

• the violin

• the oboe

• the piano

​Early life of Schubert

• boy choir school gave Franz an excellent musical education.

• age seventeen, he taught music at the same school where his father taught.

• He spent his evenings composing.

• He wrote rapidly, not caring whether or not his music would ever be performed.

• He had no income and began neglecting his health by eating poorly and sleeping very little.

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Where did Franz Schubert teach when he was seventeen?

• the same school that Mozart worked at

• the same school is father taught at

• in the farm

• in the city

​Earning a living

• Schubert realized he needed a steady source of income.

• In 1818 (age twenty-one), he took a job as music teacher at the summer home of Count Esterhazy—the same count who supported the composer Franz Joseph Haydn.

• Here Schubert made many friends and met many important court musicians and composers

• ​Count Esterhazy offered him the position of court organist, but Schubert declined because he didn’t like the schedule. He resigned after just two years.

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Schubert took a job as a music teacher at the summer home of Nicolaus Esterhazy, What other composer had worked there?

• Franz Joseph Haydn

• Mozart

• Beethoven

• Rossini

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Why did Franz Joseph Haydn decline the offer of court organist?

• he did not like the organ

• he did not like the schedule

• he was working elsewhere

• he was lazy

​His later life years

• age twenty-three, he had written over 500 musical works,

• but only two were performed

• spent his mornings composing, his afternoons with friends, and his nights partying. He was always short of money and lived in terrible conditions. His health began to fail.

• ​In March of 1828, friends put together a concert devoted exclusively to Schubert’s music. It was well received by the audience and critics; his friends told him success was near. Unfortunately, he died eight months later at the age of thirty-one

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How many musical works had he written by the age of 23?

• 1000

• 500

• 22

• 600

​After his death

• Ten years after Schubert’s death, another composer, Robert Schumann, began studying Schubert’s music and organized performances of his orchestral music.

  performances were very successful and created tremendous interest in Schubert’s music.

• One of his most famous works is his Symphony No. 8. It was unfi nished at the time of his death, and became known as the Unfinished Symphony. It was not performed until thirty-seven years after his death. Other symphonies were discovered and performed much later.

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What was the name of Franz Schubert's most famous work?

• Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished Symphony)

• The song that never ends

• The Surprise Symphony

• The Liberty Bell

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What composer started to perform his music after Franz's death?

• Mozart

• Beethoven

• Robert Schumann

• His father

Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished Symphony”)— for orchestra

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Piano Quintet in A — for piano, violin, viola,cello, and bass

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String Quartet No. 14 — for two violins,viola, and cello

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His songs — there are more than 600

Writing music was Franz Schubert’s only goal in life. He had no business sense and lived in poverty for most of his adult life. He composed rapidly and didn’t care about the value of his music or whether or not it would ever be performed. 

Shubert's works and Life goal