He had also continued his instruction under Salieri, however, and, despite being characterized as a rather shy character, continued to compose at a prolific rate.

He continued on as a schoolmaster until 1818, having been rejected for military service due to his short stature. In 1814, Schubert enrolled at a teacher's training college in Vienna and took a job as an assistant at his father's school. Some short years later, however, Schubert's voice broke and he had no choice but to leave the college and return home to live with his father. His instructors, Wenzel Ruzicka, the imperial court organist, and, later, the esteemed composer Antonio Salieri, saw in the young Schubert the makings of a musical genius and he was quickly promoted to leader of the student’s orchestra. The family was rather musical and cultivated the prodigious gifts exhibited by their young son to the best of their abilities before sending him to the Stadtkonvkit school in 1808, where he immersed himself in the study of the orchestral works of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven and was trained to one day sing at the chapel of the Imperial Court. Schubert was born in a suburb of Vienna, on January 31, 1797, to a schoolmaster father and a homemaker mother. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of Western classical music.

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 significantly in the decades following his death. Much like the poets whose works inspired his compositions, he is considered unparalleled in his mastery of lyrical beauty. Born: 31 January 1797, Vienna Died: 19 November 1828, Viennaĭistinguished by the melodic inventiveness of his compositions, Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer whose works spanned across the latter period of the Classical era and into the Romantic one.

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