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Franz Schubert, a musical biography, from the Germ. [abridged] by E. Wilberforce, 1866
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1membered by those who heard him. His father tried for some time to gain him admission to the Emperor's chapel, and in 1808 he was examined by the two Court chapel-masters, Salieri and Eybler. He acquitted himself admirably, and was at once enrolled in the Imperial choir, and admitted as a scholar in the convict* of the town. In this capacity he was invested with a uniform with a gold border—a tempting boon to a boy of his age, and one which somewhat consoled him for the departure from his home.
3Being already a fair player on the violin, he was made a member of the small orchestra of the school, which used to practise almost daily the greater works of instrumental music, such as the symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Schubert was much pleased with.
5* A kind of free school, or foundation, where poor students are boarded gratuitously; the name is derived from the Latin, and alludes to the common mess at which the boys are fed.
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