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Musical Courier 1928-04-12: Vol 96 Iss 15, 1928
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1Pictorial Biography of Franz Schubert, Jan. 31, 1797-Nov. 19, 1828
3(5) FRANZ SCHUBERT'S FATHER.
4(Unsigned Oil Painting in the Schubert Museum.)
5Father Schubert was of a simple, upright nature. His excellent education enabled him, at the age of twenty-three, to win in a competitive examination the post of school teacher in the Vienna suburb, Lichtenthal. He left valuable observations on the childhood of the composer, among which are: "At school he distinguished himself by winning the highest marks in every grade. . . He was happiest when he could while away his leisure hours with jolly companions. . . When he was eight years old, I instructed him in the elements of violin playing. . . His first music teacher, Holzer, exclaimed: 'When ever I wanted to show him something new, it turned out that he already knew it.'"
6No reproducible picture of Schubert's mother is in existence.
8(6) ROOM IN THE SCHUBERT MUSEUM.
9This room contains many personal relics of the composer. It is probably the room in which he was born.
11(7) A ROOM IN THE SCHUBERT MUSEUM, VIENNA.
12The large portrait of the composer is the one painted by Wilhelm August Rieder in 1875. On the right is Schubert's piano, and behind it can be seen his armchair.
14(8) LICHTENTHAL, A VIENNA SUBURB. (1868)
15Here Schubert grew up. The church, which can be seen near the center of the picture, became the scene of his earliest musical activities. After he had received his first musical instruction from Michael Holzer, the choir leader of the Lichtenthal congregation, he sang in the church choir at the age of eleven. His extraordinary musical precocity caused Holzer to say on the occasion of an examination: "This fellow has the whole harmony at his fingertips." His beautiful soprano voice aroused the greatest admiration. In 1814 Schubert's first mass in F major was performed in the Lichtenthal church under the young composer's own direction.
17(9) FERDINAND SCHUBERT.
18(Lithograph by Kriehuber)
19Ferdinand Schubert, the master's oldest brother, like his father a school teacher, and in later years director of a normal high school, was a true and loving companion to the composer during his whole life. The following touching, yet humorous letter, was received by brother Ferdinand from the fifteen-year-old composer: "You know from experience that a fellow sometimes feels like eating a roll and a couple of apples, particularly when, after a meager lunch he has to wait eight and one half hours for a frugal supper. 'They that put their faith in thee shall not come to grief,' (free after St. Matthew, chapter 2, verse 4). With this thought in mind I am asking you to let me have a few Kreutzer every month. You would hardly miss them while they would make me happy. I hope that you will heed the voice which is constantly calling to you not to forget your loving, poor, hopeful, and again poor brother Franz."
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