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Franz Schubert: a musical biography, 1866
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1The case of Mozart is perhaps the only one that can compete with or surpass that of Schubert. Mozart was indeed an infant phenomenon, writing or rather scrawling a concerto for the piano at the age of six, and at the age of eight an orchestral symphony. But, after Mozart, Schubert is unrivalled. His brother Ferdinand says that the fantasia for four hands, written in 1810, was his first composition for the piano, and his "Lament of Hagar," written in 1811, his first song; but there is no doubt that long before this he had composed songs, pieces for the pianoforte, and even string quartetts; and the catalogue of pieces given by his brother comprises only those which were in his possession, or in that of the musical publisher, Diabelli.
3When he was eleven years old, Schubert sang solos in the choir of the Lichtenthal parish church, or played solos there on the violin; his beautiful soprano voice and his mastery of his instrument being still re-
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