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A choice between law or music

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Schubert: 20 facts about the great composer

Vienna

6. A choice between law or music

As a 19-year old in Vienna, Schubert began both a law degree and composing his Symphony No.5. This might well have been the work that prompted the composer to drop out of studying law. It is the perfect piece for anyone who wants to get into his music – fresh, light, full of youthful exuberance and bursting with tunes.

  1. Image 1: Franz Schubert birthplace Vienna
  2. Image 2: Composer Antonio Salieri teacher of Franz Schubert
  3. Image 3: Schubert as a young man
  4. Image 4: Goethe Gretchen
  5. Image 5: Franz Schubert
  6. Image 6: Vienna
  7. Image 7: Franz Schubert Gustav Klimt
  8. Image 8: Franz Schubert portrait
  9. Image 9: wolfgang amadeus mozart
  10. Image 10: Trout Ettrick Selkirk 20 images

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Winterreise Rose Poster

A bass and a pianist walked up to a public piano and belted out a one-hour Schubert song-cycle

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Exclusive: musicologists have found a missing part of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony

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This gorgeous Schubert sonata is guaranteed to slow your heart rate

Schubert Music

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Game of Thrones Schubert

This improvisation turns Game of Thrones into a gorgeous Romantic fantasy

new releases 19th June

New releases: Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mendelssohn and Mario Venzago conducts Schubert

Death and the Maiden Schiele

Schubert - String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, 'Death and the Maiden'

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Someone has made Instagram profiles for the great composers, and they are gorgeous

Beethoven composer letters

Letters of the great composers: 12 moving, funny and inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind

Schubert sand drawing on Elie Beach

Schubert sand drawing on Elie Beach

Schubert Album Reviews

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New releases 13th July

New releases: Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Bach and Maxim Rysanov plays Schubert

new releases 24th april

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Franz Schubert

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