MUSIC

Classical Period 6 / 7

Franz Schubert

( 1797 –1828 )

A very exquisite period of Music is this one when we find composers giving us a well balanced and inspiring atmosphere of melodies and instrumentation during the late XVIII and beginning of XIX century, We will try to select some of the most significant names and their most relevant masterpieces to help you remember and enjoy their contribution to the world.

We are absolutely sure to make you feel and enjoy it like a marvelous journey to times simple but profound roots of what human beings can reach when listening and travelling along the composer to a land where you may encounter yourself with some musical proposals of finest quality ever thought to be discovered.

Enjoy them as we have found them all suited for you.

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Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Franz Peter Schubert ( German: 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 Lieder (art songs in German) and other vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include "Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria"; the Trout Quintet; the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); the Symphony No. 9 in C major (The Great); the String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (Death and the Maiden); the String Quintet in C major; the Impromptus for solo piano; the last three piano sonatas; the Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands; the opera Fierrabras; the incidental music to the play Rosamunde; and the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin, Winterreise and Schwanengesang.

At the age of five, Schubert began to receive regular lessons from his father, and a year later he was enrolled at his father's school.^[6] Although it is not known exactly when he received his first musical instruction, he was given piano lessons by his brother Ignaz, but they lasted for a very short time as Schubert excelled him within a few months.^[7] Ignaz later recalled:

Appreciation of Schubert's music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased greatly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is considered one of the greatest composers in the history of Western classical music and his music continues to be widely performed.