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- As a child, he showed great promise with his musical ability. He learned the violin from his father, Franz Theodore, and the piano from his brother Ignace.
- At the age of 17, Schubert taught at the same school where his father worked as a schoolmaster. However, he quit after only three years to focus on composing during his brief 15-year career as a composer.
- He wrote over 600 lieder, or what we now call songs. Schubert said many of his songs are based on the poems of the well-known German writer Jonathan Wolfgang Von Goethe.
- Franz Schubert was born on January 31, 1797, in Vienna, Austria.
- Though they never formally met, Schubert attended the funeral of Ludwig Van Beethoven as a pallbearer in 1827, less than 2 years before his death. Schubert died of typhus in Vienna, Austria on November 19, 1828, at the age of 31.
- He is best known as the first master of romantic lied. Schubert composed many outstanding pieces, such as String Quartet 14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden, and the unfinished Symphony No. 8.
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