Franz Schubert
Born in Himmelpfortgrund, a suburb of Vienna, on January 31, 1797, Franz Peter
Schubert was the twelfth child of a Moravian schoolteacher and a Silesian maid,
but only three eldest survived, including Ignaz, who gave him his first music
lessons on piano, violin and viola. From an early age, the youngest son showed
surprising talent, and was entrusted to the Lichtenthal parish organist, Michaël
Holzer. In 1808, at the age of eleven, the young Schubert was sent to the
Stadtkonvikt, a singing school for members of the imperial court chapel, where
his teachers included Wenzel Ruzicka...
