Franz Peter Schubert Research Paper

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, commonly referred to as Mozart was born in Austria during the 18th century. Leopold and Anna Maria Mozart gave birth to Wolfgang Amadeus on January 27th 1756. (“Wolfgang Mozart") Wolfgang was born into a family that was not unfamiliar to the sounds of music. Leopold, Mozart’s father, was musically talented and enjoyed playing the violin and was not shy at introducing his children to music. Both Mozart and his sister Maria Anna began playing instruments. Therefore, from about the age of six years old it was obvious to Mozart’s family and his peers that he was musically gifted with his understanding of the complexities surrounding it ("Wolfgang Mozart").

Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician, and played the double bass for a time at the Karl Schultze Theatre, and later in the Stadttheater orchestra. In 1847 Johannes attended a good Burgerschule (citizens? school), and in 1848 a better, that of one Hoffmann. When he was eight

Beethoven is perhaps the most famous musician of all time. His influence on later composers was extremely huge, to the extent where many composers were intimidated by his music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 into a family of musicians. His father and grandfather were both musicians at the court of Elector in the German town of Bonn. His grandfather was very respected, but his dad not so much given that he was an alcoholic. At a young age, Beethoven was put in charge of his family’s finances and started a job at the court. He composed music and helped look after the instrumentation. Around the same time, he began to write music. In 1790, an important visitor passed through Bonn: this was Franz Joseph Haydn. He was on his way to London for a visit when he stopped to meet Beethoven and agreed to take him on as a student when he came back from London to Vienna. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Hayden. Apparently, it did not go as planned. Hayden was old fashion and a little overbearing, while Beethoven was rebellious and headstrong. Beethoven found support among the rich arts who lived in Vienna. Prince Lichnowsky gave him board and lodging at his place for in return, Beethoven would compose music and preform at evening parties.

While being of the most famous composers studied today, Schubert was not so loved in his time as a composer; in fact his music wasn’t appreciated until long after he had perished. Can there be a reason for this, and is the reason that he was so unloved be the same reasoning for which he wrote his works? Life experiences are an artist’s greatest muse and one can expect that Schubert was no exception to this rule that has powered composers alike for centuries. What could fuel Schubert to become a great composer and did his health have anything to do with the changes in his writing later in life? It is known that Schubert had Syphilis in his later years of life, but did this really affect his style of writing and if it did, why would it? It is observable that the state of mind of a composer is not always evident when examining his work; however, in the cause of Schubert’s perceived madness, it is evident that his music was deeply connected with his raw and altered emotional frame of mind.

I read the article by Maynard Soloman first and while the author themselves states that, “there is some margin of error in my reading of the evidence on such matters” he provides a detailed account and analysis of Schubert’s deviating sexuality. Schubert is one of those artists that we discussed in class that we would deem as part of the canon that is “classical music.” To learn that someone who is considered an important part of music culture was a homosexual and was open about his opposition against many societal norms of that era was enthralling.

The oldest of six children, Franz was born in Prague, Bohemia in 1883. He had three sisters and two brothers which both died, one at the age of six months and the other at fifteen months. Franz did not deal with the death of his siblings very well, and later blamed the tragedy on doctors. His father was a hard worker, and spent many hours at work, along with his mother. Franz did not have a good relationship with his father due to his strict ways and high standards, and always felt as if he was a failure. Franz graduated from Charles Ferdinand University

June 28 used to be added the wedding ceremony anniversary of Franz Ferdinand. His beloved wife, Sophie, a former lady waiting, was once denied the royal statue in Austria due to the fact of her delivery as a terrible Czech aristocrat, like the couple's children. However, in Bosnia, due to its limbo popularity as an annexed territory, Sophie ought to show up alongside him in reputable processes. On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie will journey Sarajevo in an open car, with surprisingly little security, when the Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic launched an automobile bomb; He left the back of the vehicle and injured an officer and some passers-by. Later that day, on the way to visit the wounded officer, the archduke procession

He was orderly and disciplined in his creative musical life and rather free spirited in his social life, spending evenings in Vienna's numerous cafes. Never successful in obtaining a steady position, he was largely supported by his wealthy male friends, occasional funds from publishers, and such short-term positions as a foray to Hungary to teach the wealthy Esterhazy daughters. Schubert is music history's first bohemian.

Franz Schubert, one of my favorite classical composers, was born on 31 January 1797 in Vienna, Austria, which is a well known city for classic music. And he has 14 brothers and sisters, one of them was illegitimate, born in 1783 and nine of them were died in infancy. His father, Franz Theodor Schubert was a well-known teacher, and his school in Lichtental (ninth district in Vienna) had many students in attendance. Though he wasn’t even formally get his music trained, he passed on certain musical gift to his son.

Franz Peter Schubert was Born on January 31, 1797, in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria, he showed his gift for music at an early age. As a young boy, his talents included an ability to play all sorts of instruments such as the piano, violin and organ. He was also an excellent singer.

Even though Franz Schubert's most admire composer, Ludwig van Beethoven composed his sacred music in his late period, Schubert began to compose his sacred music since his early age. Throughout Schubert’s short life, he composed six masses. His six masses can be divided between early four masses and late two masses. Schubert’s last mass in E flat includes unique moments where chorus sings unmelodic and homophonic passages with melodic phrases in one or more of the instruments. This short paper examines why Schubert chooses the moments he does to have the choir sing simple chords while the instruments wax rhapsodic.

Franz Schubert creates an emotional soundscape through a plethora of musical elements. For example, when the father and son rush through the forest, Schubert helps create the sound of a galloping horse by using triplet rhythm in addition to the deep timbre of the bass. The beat is also fast-paced establishing a sense of urgency. Furthermore, when the son is frightened the harmony becomes dissonant and increases in volume, while the father soothes him with a more consonant and deeper pitched voice also making the piece more dramatic. This also shows the gravity of the situation at hand. In addition, since Erlkonig is a solo piece, all the characters are played by one vocalist, who sings each one in a different key and range. For instance, the

Schubert’s success with lied began with his masterpiece, Gretchen im Spinnrade. Written in the early romantic era, the year 1814. It is based on a text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a poet whose works would become the most associated with the romantic music of the era due in part to Schubert’s well loved settings. It was Schubert’s first successful foray into lied. Indeed, this was his 30th vocal and piano pairing and it was in this masterpiece that he created at one stroke, the Romantic German lied. This success emboldened him and in the following year brought about the composition of more than one-hundred and forty more lied.

Franz Schubert, a Viennese composer who was born in 1797, is considered the last of the Classical composers and one of the first in the Romantic Period. Composed in 1827, Franz Schubert's Impromptus are a series of eight pieces for solo piano. They were published in two sets of four impromptus each and Op. 90 was the first to be published in his lifetime. Impromptu is a style of music roughly beginning in the Romantic Period written for a solo instrument, typically the piano, that is improvisational in sound. Schubert uses a wide range of emotion, atmosphere, sonority and structure. As it is a piece of music in the Romantic era, it offers a wide range of dynamics, building up crescendos and diminuendos which shows the rich emotions throughout

The expansive first movement from Schubert’s “Rosamunde” quartet is an odyssey in which the principal melody, first heard in A minor, sets out on an epic quest for the attainment of A major. Laid out in a straight forward Sonata Form, the Primary theme appears as a triple period, with the last of the three phrases being in A major. The violent cadence in m. 32 dramatically switches the mode back into a menacing A minor, completely forfeiting the three tries in which the Primary theme so yearningly made to establish itself in A major.