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
Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
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?
There is no such thing as happy music.
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Why does God endow us with compassion?
It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.
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.
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.