Among the world music, there is a great composer comparable to Beethoven, who has created more than 600 pieces of music, but he is a Buddhist lay young man two hundred years ago.
At the age of 16, in order to refuse military service, he ran to his father's school to work as an assistant: "How tired is that thing!" Don't go, don't go! ”
At the age of 18, he resigned as a teacher's assistant and began to live in his students' homes, receiving relief from all sides: "Part-time work is impossible!" Don't go, don't go! Eh, boy, your meal is so fragrant! ”
Until the age of 31, he died of syphilis and died young. Buried next to Beethoven's grave. The tombstone is inscribed with Franz Schubert. "Ah, finally lying flat!"
Schubert was born on 31 January 1797 in Richtiantal, a suburb of Vienna, a mecca of classical music. His father was the principal of a parish school and an amateur musician. His mother was a maid before marriage (much like in John Christopher). ）。
From the age of five, Schubert began learning violin with his father. He began to enter school at the age of six, and his musical initiation began at that time. When Schubert was seven years old, he studied music with Michael Holzer, the band leader at Holzer Church.
At this point, Schubert showed amazing talent. Holzer had no difficulty teaching Schubert, and Schubert had no teacher. Teaching becomes communication.
In August 1808, Schubert joined the Chapel Royal Boys' Choir. There Schubert began to come into contact with Mozart's overtures and symphonies. Still showing extraordinary talent.
His talent caught the attention of antonio Salieri, the top composer of the time, who became Schubert's true mentor. From then on, Salieri began to teach Schubert composition and vocal theory.
In the boarding school, the teenage Schubert went on to write a lot of chamber music, a few songs, and some piano pieces.
Because of his participation in the choir, Schubert's music paid great attention to melody.
In his early childhood, this troubled young man was as happy as each of us lay flat Buddhist youth.
At the end of 1813, Schubert left boarding school and began the foreplay of the lie-flat journey— being beaten by society.
During the Austrian Empire at that time, unemployed vagrants were required to participate in military service. Schubert was a conscription for military service.
To avoid military service, Schubert began training as a teacher and became a teacher's assistant at his father's school. And in 1814, at the age of 17, he successfully became a teacher in the lower grades. Located in the countryside on the outskirts of Vienna.
"Nibble on the old? hum! How can an underage say I'm old? Rely on Dad at home, Heaven forbid! ”
Family changes: At the age of 17, his father also remarried the daughter of a silk merchant from the suburbs. It is suspected that Schubert's mother has died.
In the next two years, Schubert began to taste human suffering.
It was rumored that Schubert was halfway through class, and he had an inspiration in his head and said to the students on the spot:
"Let's take music lessons!"
Change the teaching content on the spot, write the music directly on the blackboard. Afterwards, he was reprimanded by his father and ridiculed by his peers.
The remuneration of rural teachers is only enough for daily expenses. Schubert, who endured the complicated work, began to accumulate depression.
To put it simply: Schubert at this stage is now working after graduating from college. If you want money, you have no money, you step on the pit everywhere, and you are scarred. Life is not fun at all, and just living consumes a lot of mental energy.
But Schubert's only consolation was that Salieri had always been obsessed with Schubert and had come to him for a long time to teach composition alone.
Salieri, who was already famous at that time, can be said to be the biggest Bole in Schubert's life! At the same time, the impact on Schubert was also very large.
The embarrassment of rural life made Schubert personally suffer.
In 1815, despite teaching jobs, Sari was sought out for classes, and the chores of life were entangled. But the 19-year-old Schubert's musical production is incredibly high.
Here are some of the classics created in 1814 and 1815:
Symphony No. 2 in B flat major (D.125),
D major number 3 (D.200)
"Four years of sentinel postings " ( Der vierjährige Posten ) ( D.190 ),
Fernando (D.220)
Claudine von Villabella (D.239)
Adrast (D.137, incomplete)
Friend from Salamanca (Die Freunde von Salamanka) (D.326).
There are also string quartets, four sonatas and scattered piano pieces plus 146 songs.
Among them, piano music became Schubert's talent stage.
In 1816, Schubert began a period of maturity and creation, composing music for Goethe's poem "The Devil King" and writing the classic narrative song "The Devil King".
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A few weeks after writing The Demon King, a well-off student named Franz von Schober came to visit him because he had heard songs from Schubert's friend Spaun.
The students who heard "The Demon King" were amazed! With a big wave of his hand, he said excitedly:
"Teacher! You are a genius!
"Come to my house, I'll raise you!" bah! I'm here to fund you! ”
In an instant, Schubert burst into tears, shook the student's hand, and trembled and said:
"I do! bah! I see the line! Your rice thieves are delicious! This bird place, Grandpa has long been tired of! Get up! “
Schubert had just applied unsuccessfully for a court musician in Ljubljana and was sullen!
The two hit it off!
When his father learned of this, he was overjoyed, shook the student's hand and said, "Thank you!" Thank you for helping me solve this scourge of mine, yuck! No! Help my son! Lao Tzu I am undiminished, and the new wife regenerates his mother's fifteen! “
In this way, at the end of April, Schubert moved to the Schober house. Embark on a 12-year journey to lie flat.
Newlywed, no! New house new atmosphere!
Schubert, who had just moved, was full of enthusiasm.
But life is like a pig-killing knife, and the cruelty of one knife after another cuts off Schubert's reverie.
Living under the fence made Schubert poorer and poorer.
The poorer you are, the more inferior you become.
Schubert once tried to teach music in order to make a little money and get in and out of the wind and snow field. But he quickly gave up, because teaching music every time always made him want to teach painful times.
This kind of poverty allowed Schubert to devote himself to music creation. He later said: "I write all day, and whenever I finish one, I start the next one right away. ”
The only good news is that as Schubert's work grows. Schubert's circle of friends is growing.
More and more people have heard of such a talented composer. Admiring.
For example, the famous baritone of the time, Johann Michael Vogl. He and his brother Joseph became one of Schubert's first loyal fans. Their love for Schubert was so great that they often sang in the Salon in Vienna, singing to the audience friends the song written by Schubert: "Anselm Hüttenbrenner".
This kind of fan also includes excellent pianists and musical families.
A new term began to circulate in Vienna, "Schubertiaden".
Like Li Bai in China, Schubert lived in Vienna, but he was not poor. There are more righteous friends who often receive help.
Mentioning it, Schubert has a nickname of "Little Mushroom". Because he was only 157 centimeters, he was a little fat man.
But the good times were short-lived, and they often dealt with these so-called "musical celebrities". Schubert's life was also not a checkpoint, and in 1822, he suffered from syphilis.
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In 1823, Schubert contracted typhus. At that time, it was in an incurable disease. His life began to count down.
Syphilis and typhoid fever tormented Schubert, and he entered the final glory.
In 1823 Schubert completed the song collection Die schöne Müllerin (D. 795), which, and later Winterreise (D. 911), is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Schubert's songwriting.
From 1826 to 1828, Schubert remained in Vienna. Met Beethoven three times.
The first time, Schubert looked at Beethoven, but was intimidated by Beethoven's high coldness:
Schubert: "Brother! Are you really an idol of the doll, sign a name for me? ”
Beethoven: "What?" What do you say ? Lao Tzu can't hear! ”
In 1826, Schubert received his first musical remuneration, a symphony dedicated to the Society of Friends of Musicians.
In 1828, the spring of Schubert's death, the musical giant who created 600 pieces of music held a concert of his own works for the first time and only time in his life, and the praise was overwhelming.
On November 19, 1828, Schubbner died in Vienna. Buried next to beethoven, the idol of his life.
After his death, his works began to become representatives of classicism and aestheticism after Beethoven. World-renowned.
In 1872, Schubert's monument was erected in Vienna's Central Park.
At last:
It's good to lie flat, but don't get up! Come on!