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Franz Schubert: a musical biography, 1866
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1already mastered all the rudiments which were to be taught him.
3"When he was five years old," writes his father, "I prepared him for elementary instruction, and at six I sent him to school, where he was always one of the first among his fellow scholars. He was fond of society from early youth, and was never happier than when he could spend his hours of play in a circle of joyous comrades. When he was eight I gave him preliminary instruction on the violin, and let him practise till he could play easy duetts pretty well; after that I sent him to attend the singing class of Herr Michael Holzer, choirmaster in Lichtenthal. Herr Holzer often assured me with tears in his eyes that he had never had such a pupil. 'Whenever I want to teach him anything new,' he would say, 'I find he knows it already. The result has been that I have not given him any real instruction, but have only looked on with astonishment and silence.'"
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