The orchestra and its instruments . ife; and he died there at the age of thirty-one. Heearned a scanty living; he found it hard to get hiscompositions published; he had no wealthy patronslike Handel, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart and Beethoven;he had no pleasures, no triumphs such as Weber andMendelssohn enjoyed. Schuberts life was dull andcommonplace. Yet between the years of his birthand death — 1797-1828 — he produced an astound-ing number of works. He wrote 650 songs (the ex-traordinary Erl-King when he was only eighteen), tenSymphonies (of which the eighth is the Unfinished),many operettas, piano-
The orchestra and its instruments . ife; and he died there at the age of thirty-one. Heearned a scanty living; he found it hard to get hiscompositions published; he had no wealthy patronslike Handel, Haydn, Gluck, Mozart and Beethoven;he had no pleasures, no triumphs such as Weber andMendelssohn enjoyed. Schuberts life was dull andcommonplace. Yet between the years of his birthand death — 1797-1828 — he produced an astound-ing number of works. He wrote 650 songs (the ex-traordinary Erl-King when he was only eighteen), tenSymphonies (of which the eighth is the Unfinished),many operettas, piano-music and a great deal oforchestral and chamber-music and compositions forspecial instruments. Salieri, the old rival of Mozart, was the first torecognize Schuberts genius. He can do everything,he exclaimed, he is a genius. He composes songs,masses, operas, quartets — whatever you can thinkof. In 1822 Schubert met both Beethoven andWeber. Beethoven he adored. Schubert was a singer,violinist and pianist. 1 Dr. Phillipp SCHUBERT By Rieder THE ORCHESTRA 239 Schuberts first Symphony in D is dated 1813; theSecond in B-flat is dated 1814; the Third in D, in 1815;the Fourth in C-minor (described by the composer asthe Tragic) is dated 1816; and scored for two vio-lins, viola, violoncello and bass, two flutes, two oboes,two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpetsand drums. The Fifth Symphony, known as the Symphonywithout trumpets and drums, is scored for two vio-lins, viola, violoncello, double-bass, flute, two oboes,two bassoons and two horns. It is dated 1816. Upto this point Schuberts Symphonies show the influ-ence of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Now camethe true Schubert style with the Sixth, the C-majorSymphony, which is regarded as Schuberts master-piece. It is scored for two violins, viola, violoncelloand double-bass; two flutes, two oboes, two clari-nets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, anddrums. This work was first performed in Vienna in1828, but
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