Franz Peter Schubert (1797 1828) was the virtual founder of German lied and was the first to make song the medium for every shade of personal feeling. He wrote six hundred lieder in all. His music is expressive, articulate and an example of a Bohemian literally overwhelmed by an unparalleled genius. Few composers have has as profound an impact on music, composition as has Franz Schubert. The first surviving publications are from age thirteen and he credited for having written one thousand compositions before his thirteenth birthday.
He was born in a little village near Vienna on January 1st, 1797. When still a child, he began the study of music under the tutelage of his father who had some knowledge of violin playing. Franz possessed a fine soprano voice and thus gained admittance to the St Stephen's choir school in Vienna, where he was given instruction in singing and learnt something of composition. He continued here till sixteen, when his voice broke.
He was,......
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