Franz Schubert
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Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He was immensely prolific despite living a short life, leaving behind a vast oeuvre of more than 1,000 comp
1875 portrait, after an 1825 original
The house in which Schubert was born, today Nußdorfer Straße 54
Possible portrait of the young Franz Schubert c. 1814, attributed to Josef Abel
Caricature of Johann Michael Vogl and Franz Schubert by Franz von Schober (1825)
Antonio Salieri
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Antonio Salieri was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the
Franz Schubert
…returned home to live with his father, where he began studying to become a schoolteacher. Despite this, he continued his studies in composition with Antonio Salieri and still composed prolifically. In 1821, Schubert was admitted to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde as a performing member, which helped establish his…
Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, c. 1815
Salieri's teacher Florian Leopold Gassmann in an engraving (1775) by Johann Balzer
Beginning of the overture to Salieri's Armida in the autograph score
Adolphe Nourrit in the title role in Tarare, in Paris 1823