Austrian People of Silesian German Descent - Franz Schubert, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rudolf Koppitz, Johann Palisa, Gustav Von Myrdacz (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Franz Schubert, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rudolf Koppitz, Johann Palisa, Gustav von Myrdacz, Johann Nestroy, Ernst Grunfeld, Georg Wahl, Rudolf Dittrich, Alfred Proksch, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Ferdinand Schubert, Francis Karl Alter, Heinrich Conried, Robert Hohlbaum, Johann Nepomuk Rust, Emanuel Aloys Forster, Johann Rudolf Kutschker, Adolf Lorenz, Leopold Ritter von Dittel, Moritz von Auffenberg, Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, Vincenz Kollar, Rudolf Ramek, Ferdinand Hanusch. Excerpt: Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: January 31, 1797 - November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. Appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited, but interest in Schubert's work increased dramatically in the decades following his death at the age of 31. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn, among others, discovered and championed his works in the 19th Century. Today, Schubert is admired as one of the leading exponents of the early Romantic era in music and he remains one of the most frequently performed composers. Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund (now a part of Alsergrund), Vienna on January 31, 1797. His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elisabeth Vietz, was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith, and had also been a housemaid for a Viennese family prior to her marriage. Of Franz Theodor's fourteen children (one illegitimate child was born in 1783), nine died in infancy; five survived. Their father was a well-known teacher, and his school in L...