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Franz Schubert, a musical biography, from the Germ. [abridged] by E. Wilberforce, 1866
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1This makes it the more strange that the year 1812 should be marked as witnessing the production of one song only, "A Complaint," a small and unimportant composition. We can hardly believe that nothing else of the vocal order dates from a year of such activity, or that Schubert was too much occupied with instrumental music to turn his attention to his more favourite study. The list of religious and instrumental pieces during this year is certainly large. It comprises a Salve Regina and Kyrie, a sonata for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, two string quartetts, two overtures, an andante with variations, and thirty minuets with trios, composed for one of his brothers. These last were so much admired by Dr. Anton Schmidt, who had been a friend of Mozart's and was a first-rate violinist, that he declared the boy who had written them would be a master such as few had ever been.
3When we consider that this activity proceeds from a youth entering his fifteenth year we
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