Schubert Moments
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- Composer
- Schubert, Franz
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 4891030502598
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)6 Moments musicaux, Opus 94, D, 780 Allegretto in C minor, D. 9153 Klavierstucke, D, 946Franz Schubert was born in Vienna in1797, the son of a schoolmaster who had followed his brother to the Imperial capital fromhis native Moravia. Descended on his mother's side from Silesian stock, Schubert was asViennese in language and outlook as any other inhabitant of a city, the cultural strengthof which lay in its very mixture of races.Schubert's family showedconsiderable musical enthusiasm, his father evidently the least proficient member of thefamily string quartet, in which he played the cello. Schubert himself, like Mozart beforehim, played the violin and viola, and was a proficient enough keyboard-player, if no greatvirtuoso. His musical and general education was at the Staatskonvikt, an institution heattended as a member of the choir of the Imperial Chapel directed by the KapellmeisterAntonio Salieri, his composition teacher. In 1812, when his voice broke, he left the choirand rather than continue an education that would have distracted him from music he chosein 1814 to embark on a course of teacher training, joining his father in the familybusiness as an assistant teacher in the following year.During these early years Schuberthad shown considerable musical precocity. His first surviving compositions date from 1810and by the following year he had embarked on the writing of the first of the many songsettings in which his particular genius in melodic in
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