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Franz Schubert: a musical biography, 1866
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1But in spite of this modest disclaimer, it is certain that Holzer did give him instruction in thorough bass, in playing the pianoforte and the organ. On one occasion, when he had given his pupil a theme, he was quite in ecstacies at the way he worked it out, and exclaimed, "The boy has harmony in his little finger!" The same was the experience of Schubert's elder brother, who had also given him lessons. "I was astonished," he says, "when after a few months Franz told me that he did not want any more instruction from me, but would make his own way in future. He made such progress in a very short time that I had to acknowledge him as a master far excelling me, and one whom I could no longer dream of overtaking."
3Thus Franz Schubert was one of those gifted beings whom the genius of art has visited on their first entrance into life; one
5"Quem tu Melpomene semel
6Nascentem placido lumine videris."
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