Ferdinand Schubert

Ferdinand Schubert ( born October 18, 1794 in Vienna, † February 26, 1859 ) was an Austrian composer and brother of Franz Schubert. He also designed the grave stone for the grave of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Life

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert was an Austrian teacher, organist and composer, who has become less known for his own compositions as its importance in the tradition of the complete works of his younger brother Franz Schubert. His musical education in piano and violin, he received first by his father, Franz Theodor Schubert and his older brother Ignaz, later by Michael Holzer and finally through the public teacher of harmony at St. Anna, Joseph Drechsler. In his autobiographical sketch he wrote for the rest of his musical education " dealing with his brother Franz ."

From 1810 Schubert worked as organist at the parish church Lichttaler, yet parallel to his job as an assistant teacher at an orphanage in Vienna, which he took up in the same year. Four years later (1816 ) he became employed as a real teacher. In 1816 he married Anna pupils. In the same year he performs for the first time, which was composed by Franz Schubert German requiem mass ( Deutsches Requiem D 621 ) as his own work on.

In 1820, Ferdinand Schubert teacher and choirmaster in Old Lerch field, but received two years later (1824 ) an appeal to the teacher at the normal high school at St. Anna, where he was in 1829 the first representative of the Musikverein St. Anna. After his first wife died, married Schubert 1832 Therese Spazierer. From his two marriages originated a total of 29 children, of whom only 12 survived. His appointment as a member of the Committees of the Society concerts followed in 1834, and just four years later (1838 ) he received an Honorary Professor of organ at the Conservatoire. Since he was admired in professional circles for his outstanding work as a school board, he received in 1851 the post of Director at the normal high school at St. Anna.

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert kept a significant part of the estate of his brother Franz and also made ​​copies of his works at. With the exception of held for unsaleable operas, masses and symphonies he offered in 1828 to Diabelli numerous manuscripts of his brother, of which the songs appeared as " posthumous musical seals " between 1830 and 1850. In addition, he has authored numerous educational journals as well as a number of sacred compositions and smaller pieces for use in schools, used but sometimes works in his brother's (eg Christmas Mass, Op 13, the Kyrie D 45) or let them even under his own name print as the German funeral mass op 2 and orchestrated by him Salve Regina, Op 12

Although Schubert himself throughout his life tried hard, his family lived in poor economic conditions so that appeared after his death " Views to support its survivors ."

Musical Works (selection)

  • Christmas Mass, opus 13
  • Salve Regina, opus 12
  • Mass in F major ( 1830), opus 10
  • Filiae Regum
  • Regina Coeli
  • Requiem, Op 9

Educational Writings (selection )

  • The small, hard-working head computer. A gift for children who do not forget the parallel computing [ ... ] want. Vienna printed, bey About Georg Reuter, in 1829. ( Faks outp. Vienna 1976 afterword by Hans Jörg pitcher)
  • The small geographer. Vienna 1833.
  • Small surveyor, or first lessons in geometry. 2nd edition, Vienna, 1836.
  • Concise representation of the Austrian imperial state. For the use for youth. 5, verb. Edition of the "little Oester Reichers ". Vienna 1853.
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