Johann Mayrhofer
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Johann Baptist Mayrhofer was an Austrian poet and librettist. He is best known for his close friendship with the composer Franz Schubert.
Schwind: Johann Mayrhofer
Birthplace Steyr, Pfarrgasse
Memorial plaque, Steyr
Schwind: Spaun's Schubertiade 1828, Vogl and Schubert, Mayrhofer (right)
Franz von Schober
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Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober, was a poet, librettist, lithographer, actor in Breslau and Legationsrat in Weimar.
Johann Mayrhofer
…worked as a censor at the Zentral-Bücher-Revisions-Amt in Vienna. In 1814 he met the young composer Franz Schubert and his friends (Joseph von Spaun, Franz von Schober). From 1818 to 1821 he lived with Schubert in a one-room apartment in a house on Wipplingerstrasse 4…
Schober and Torup castle, painted by L. Kupelwieser
An die Musik – Schober's poem – one of Schubert's autograph manuscripts