![]() ![]() Franz Schubert Memorial by Carl Kundmann in Vienna’s Stadtpark ![]() ![]() His sacred output includes seven masses, one oratorio and one requiem, among other mass movements and numerous smaller compositions. He completed only eleven of his twenty stage works. There are over fifty chamber works, including some fragmentary works. There is also a relatively large set of works for piano duet. There is a large body of music for solo piano, including fourteen complete sonatas, numerous miscellaneous works and many short dances. While he composed no concertos, he did write three concertante works for violin and orchestra. He completed eight orchestral overtures and seven complete symphonies, in addition to fragments of six others. He also composed a considerable number of secular works for two or more voices, namely part songs, choruses and cantatas. The largest number of these are songs for solo voice and piano (over 600). Schubert was remarkably prolific, writing over 1,500 works in his short career. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Appreciation of his 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. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works (mainly Lieder), seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Schubert died at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. Oil painting of Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder (1875), made from his own 1825 watercolor portrait.įranz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. ![]()
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