200th birthday of Franz Schubert - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1997 - 100 Pfennig

The Austrian composer Franz Schubert was born on 31 January 1797 in Wien-Lichtental and died on 19 November 1828 in Vienna. For a long time Schubert was regarded as an eclectic, who in his early symphonies only paraphrased the style of Viennese classical music of a Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven. In fact, these early symphonies also have a real mastery of harmony and orchestration; In the late work with the 8th and 9th Symphony, Schubert completely disassociates himself from his role models. The composer Schubert would probably have been almost completely forgotten today if composers or musicologists such as Schumann, Grove or later had not demonstrated German perceptiveness and rediscovered many scores of long-lost compositions owned by Schubert's friends. It was also the friends who accompanied Schubert throughout his life to introduce him, the closed and often shy composer, to the world of Viennese society, his audience. There were sociable evenings with Franz Schubert on the piano, at which a number of his compositions were premiered privately. The only public concert of his life Schubert denied in 1828 in the Vienna Musikverein. Schubert's work includes stage works, nine symphonies, chamber music, sacred works, and the extremely rich song production, which has helped the European art song with settings from Goethe to Walter Scott for the final breakthrough as a musical genre. Through his vocal work Franz Schubert becomes the founder of romantic music of the 19th century. (Text: Peter Daners M.A., Bonn)