Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubertwas an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and 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 following his death. Felix Mendelssohn,...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth31 January 1797
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
I want you for always...days, years, eternities.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.