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Franz Schubert, a musical biography, from the Germ. [abridged] by E. Wilberforce, 1866
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1influence Schubert was able to exercise over his companions. His love of composing was already active in him, and this was confided to them in secret. He was urged to composition by an irresistible impulse; thoughts came thick upon him, and he was often in want of music paper to put them down. His own funds were too small to keep him in this, and he was often indebted to a friend for the means of preserving his thoughts. Even at the age of thirteen, his consumption of music paper was enormous; he wrote sonatas, masses, songs, operas, and even symphonies; but few of these early compositions saw the light.
3In April, 1810, he wrote a grand fantasia for four hands, which is generally known by the name of the Corpse Fantasia. It extends to thirty-two closely written sides, and contains a dozen pieces varying in character, each ending in a different key from the one in which it begins. In the years 1811 and 1813 he followed up this fantasia by two others of
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