Franz Schubert
(1797 - 1828)
Childhood:
• Learned to play violin and piano.
• His father was Franz Theodore Schubert and his
mother was Maria Elisabeth Vietz.
• He was the fourth son of Franz Theodore
Schubert.
• At eleven he was accepted into the choir of the
Imperial Court Chapel. (He also played in the
orchestra.) At age fifteen he left when his voice
changed.
• Schubert spent most of his spare time practicing
and composing by himself.
Career:
• He wrote over nine
hundred songs.
• Nine symphonies.
(Classical in
nature).
• Fourteen complete
string quartets.
Personal Life:
• He would organize
Schubertiades.
Schubertiades were
gatherings in the musical
community where they
would preform pieces that
they were working on
(basically jam sessions).
• Had no children.
• Lived the Bohemian
lifestyle.
• He had syphilis. (probably
what he died from).
Symphony No. 8 in B minor.
• Often called “unfinished”
because Schubert only did the
first two movements and it is
rumored that he had sketched
the third, hence the name
unfinished.
• Started the symphony in 1822.
• The work was first preformed
on December 17, 1865.
• Schubert worked on this
symphony six years before his
death, but pushed it aside to
work on other pieces
Symphony No. 8 in B minor
Movements:
• The first movement is
Allegro moderato in B
minor.
• The second
movement is Andante
con moto in E major.
• Composed in 1823.
• Schuberts last completed
opera.
• The first full performance
of this opera did not
happen until the 1980s.
• Schubert never saw this
performed.
• This opera has been
pretty much ignored.
• Has 30 movements /
parts.
• In German.
• Romantic style.
• Three acts.
Fierrabras, Opera,
D.
Wikipedia Synopsis of Fierrabras:
(I couldn't find this anywhere else).
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Act 1:
Emma is in love with Eginhard, the Karl does no aprove so they keep the love a
secret. Fierrabras recognizes her as someone he had fallen in love with in Rome.
Eginhard and Emma meet in a garden at night and Fierrabras finds them. Fierrabras
is convinced to help Eginhard. The kind thinks that Firrabras is trying to kidnap Emma
and has him put in chains.
Act 2:
Eginhard goes with some of the Karls knights to make peace with the Moors, they
capture him and take him to their castle. Boland and his daughter Florinda are
concerned about Fierrabras fate. When he is told of the imprisonment he sentences
the knights to death. Florinda recognizes Roland (one of the knights) ans helps them
in an escape attempt. After a short fight the knights are put back in their prison cells.
Act 3:
Emma confesses to her father that she is in love with Eginhard and tells him that
Fierrabras is innocent. They then go to the Moor castle, and just before the knights
are executed they arrive and resolve everything. Emma and Eginhard are married as
well as Florinda and Roland. Fierrabras joins the Karls knights.
Information Sources:
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/franz-schubertmn0000691239
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fierrabras_%28oper
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• http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/schubert.
php
• http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/;jsessio
nid=05EA29E1299328DED61CCC56E9427DBA
• The Texbook, “The Enjoyment of Music”.
• Also my notes from in class discussion.
Picture Sources:
• http://theomniscientmussel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/franzschubert.jpg
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/schubert.jpg
• http://www.celloonline.com/images/unit3/3_2_Schubertiade.jpg
• https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255s01/boheme/party-bohemian%20lives.gif
• http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HqKGKjW1Hn4/0.jpg
• http://www.musicnotes.com/images/productimages/mtd/MN0019384
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• http://i.prs.to/t_200/naxos8572939.jpg
• http://ecx.imagesamazon.com/images/I/51IT7nD5NeL._SL500_AA300_.jpg