Schubert's biography: the difficult life of the great composer

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Schubert's biography is very interesting to study. He was born on January 31, 1797 in a suburb of Vienna. His father worked as a school teacher, was a very hardworking and decent person. The eldest sons chose their father's path, the same path was prepared for Franz. However, music was also loved in their house. So, a short biography of Schubert…

Father taught Franz to play the violin, his brother taught him the clavier, the church regent taught him theory and taught him to play the organ. It soon became clear to the household that Franz was unusually gifted, so at the age of 11 he began to study at a church singing school. There was an orchestra in which the students played. Soon, Franz played the first violin part and even conducted.

In 1810 the guy writes his first composition, and it becomes clear that Schubert is a composer. His biography says that the passion for music in him intensified so much that over time it supplanted other interests. The young man dropped out of school after five years, angering his father. Schubert's biography tells that, yielding to his father, he enters the teacher's seminary, and then works as a teacher's assistant. However, allhis father's hopes to turn Franz into a man with a good and secure income were in vain.

The biography of Schubert in the period from 1814 to 1817 is one of the most active phases of his work. At the end of this time, he is already the author of 7 sonatas, 5 symphonies and about 300 songs that are on everyone's lips. It would seem that a little more - and success is guaranteed. Franz leaves the service. The father becomes furious, leaves him penniless and breaks off all relationships.

Schubert's biography tells that he had to live with friends. Among them were famous composers, poets, artists. It was during this period that the famous "Schubertiads" are held, that is, evenings dedicated to the music of Franz. Among friends, he played the piano, composing music on the go. However, these were difficult years. Schubert lived in unheated rooms and gave hateful lessons so as not to starve to death. Due to poverty, Franz could not get married - his girlfriend preferred a we althy confectioner to him.

Schubert's biography shows that in 1822 he wrote one of his best creations - "Unfinished Symphony", and then a cycle of works "The Beautiful Miller's Woman". For some time, Franz returned to the family, but two years later he left again. Naive and trusting, he was not adapted to an independent life. Schubert was often deceived by his publishers, who frankly profited from him. The author of a huge and wonderful collection of songs that were very popular among the burghers during his lifetime, barely made ends meet.

Schubert was not a virtuoso musician, like Beethoven or Mozart, and could only act as an accompanist to his melodies. The symphonies were never performed during the composer's lifetime. The Schubertiada circle broke up, friends started families. He did not know how to ask, and did not want to humiliate himself in front of influential personalities.

Franz was completely desperate and thought that perhaps in his old age he would have to beg, but he was wrong. The composer did not know that he would not have old age. But, despite all this, his creative activity does not weaken, and even vice versa: Schubert's biography claims that his music becomes deeper, more expressive and larger-scale. In 1828, friends organized a concert at which the orchestra played only his songs. He was a very big success. After that, Schubert was again filled with grandiose plans and with redoubled energy began to work on new compositions. However, a few months later he fell ill with typhus and died in November 1828.