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Oil painting by Wilhelm August Rieder (1875). Source: Wikipedia
Franz Schubert (International) assertion Franz Schubert i(A60787 works by)
Born: Established: 1797 ; Died: Ceased: 1828
Gender: Male
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Franz Peter Schubert was a prolific Austrian composer, who in his brief 32 years wrote some 600 Lieder, ten complete or nearly complete symphonies, liturgical music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades immediately after his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the early Romantic era and, as such, is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century.

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Notes

  • Shubert was the subject of the hit 1922 musical Lilac Time. Based on Heinrich Berté's story about the composer Lilac Time contains a musical score by both Schubert and Australian-born composer George Clutsam, and a libretto by Adrian Ross. It premiered at London's Lyric Theatre in late December 1922 and went on to become one of the big hits of the 1920s, playing 628 performances. There were at least nine London revivals times up to 1942, and it ha s also been staged in the USA and Australia. Twenty years later Clutsam collaborated with several others to create the operetta Blossom Time (1942) which they adapted from the 1934 film version.

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