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Schubert: Easy Listening Piano Classics

The son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was educated as a chorister of the imperial court chapel and later qualified as a schoolteacher, briefly and thereafter intermittently joining his father in the classroom. He spent his life largely in Vienna, enjoying the company of friends, but never holding any position in the musical establishment or attracting the kind of patronage that Beethoven had twenty years earlier. While Schubert's work was admired by a cl