s and admirers,
bears the following inscription:
MUSIC HAS HERE ENTOMBED A RICH TREASURE,
BUT MUCH FAIRER HOPES.
FRANZ SCHUBERT LIES HERE.
BORN JAN. 31, 1797;
DIED NOV. 19, 1828,
31 YEARS OLD.
FOOTNOTES:
[22] The Symphony in D, performed from manuscript at the Crystal
Palace, on February 5, 1881.
[23] The opera was never performed, and in 1848 the manuscript of the
second act was accidentally destroyed by a servant who used it for
lighting the fires.
[24] For the following extract from this letter the author expresses
his acknowledgments to Sir G. Grove's 'Dictionary of Music and
Musicians' (article 'Schubert'), in which the letter was for the first
time published.
[25] His brother Carl, the landscape painter.
[26] His stepmother; the father had married again soon after the first
wife's death.
[27] Of the 'Wanderer'--second only in popularity to the 'Erl
King'--the publishers are said to have realised, since the time of its
appearance up to the year 1861, the sum of 27,000 florins, or more than
L1,100.
[28] Sir G. Grove, 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians.'
SCHUBERT'S PRINCIPAL COMPOSITIONS
OPERAS AND DRAMATIC WORKS:
Des Teufels Lustschloss. Comp. 1813-1814, pub. 1888.
Die Zwillingsbrueder. Comp. 1818-1819, pub. 1872.
Alfonso und Estrella. Op. 69. Comp. 1821-1822, pub. 1827.
Die Verschworenen, oder Der Haeusliche Krieg. Comp. 1823, pub. 1862.
Fierabras. Op. 76. Comp. 1823, pub. 1827.
Rosamunde (Overture and Incidental Music). Op. 26. Comp. 1823,
pub. 1824.
6 MASSES:
No. 1, in F, Comp. 1814, pub. 1856.
No. 2, in G, Comp. 1815, pub. 1846.
No. 3, in B-flat, Op. 141. Comp. 1815, pub. 1838.
No. 4, in C, Op. 48. Comp. 1818, pub. 1826.
No. 5, in E-flat, Comp. 1828, pub. 1865.
No. 6, in A-flat, Comp. 1819-1822, pub. 1876.
Deutsche Messe in F. Comp. 1826, pub. 1870.
Lazarus (cantata--unfinished). Comp. 1820, pub. 1866.
Psalm XXIII., for female voices, Op. 132. Comp. 1820, pub. 1831.
The Song of Miriam, Op. 136. Comp. 1828, pub. 1838.
8 SYMPHONIES:
No. 1, in D, Comp. 1813.
No. 2, in B-flat, Comp. 1814-1815.
No. 3, in D, Comp. 1815.
No. 4, in C minor, The Tragic. Comp. 1816, pub. 1870.
No. 5, in B-flat, Comp. 1816, pub. 1870.
No. 6, in C, Comp. 1818.
No. 8, in B minor, The Unfinished. Comp. 1822, pub. 1867.
No. 9, in C, Comp.
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