What Are Franz Schubert's Major Accomplishments

Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer who passed away before his 32nd birthday, but was also a prolific composer during his lifespan. His achievements consists of seven symphonies, over six hundred vocal works, sacred music, operas, and a large quantity of chamber and piano music. The admiration of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small crowd of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work grew significantly in the years following his death even up until today. Today, Schubert is ranked among one of the greatest composers of the late Classical and early Romantic era and is among the most regularly performed composers from the nineteenth century.

Franz Peter Schubert was born in a small town called Vienna, Austria on January 31st 1797. His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, was the son of a peasant, and was a parish schoolmaster. His mother, Elisabeth, was the daughter of a master locksmith and had been a housemaid for a Viennese family before her marriage. Of Franz T’s fourteen children, nine
The history of his life during these years was mostly uninteresting, and is little more than a record of his compositions. In 1826, he dedicated a unique symphony to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and received compensation in return. In the spring of 1828, he performed, for the only time in his career, a public concert of his own personal works, which was well received. The compositions by themselves are a sufficient biography. The String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, with the variations on Death and the Maiden, was written in the winter of 1825–1826, and played on 25 January 1826. In that later pat of 1826 came the String Quartet No. 15 in G major, the Rondo in B minor for piano and violin, Rondeau brillant, and the Piano Sonata in G major. These would be added the three Shakespearian songs, of which were allegedly written on the same