Franz Schuberts Impact On Society

“I am composing like a God, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done,” said Franz Schubert. Music has evolved over the years with the help of several composers and musicians. Franz Schubert was a composer during the Classical Era. Schubert composed an incredible amount of music, ranging from huge orchestral compositions to chamber music designed for home performance (Nypaver 4). Schubert was very talented. He could write sixty to seventy bars of music per day. Today a pop song is roughly 120 to 140 bars, so Schubert could write a pop song in just two days. Schubert played an important role in music. Schubert was born on January 31, 1797. Schubert grew up in a household four siblings, his mother and father. Schubert went to the elementary

According to David Brensilver, Franz Peter Schubert was among the first of the Romantics, and the composer who, more than any other, brought the art song also known as lied to artistic maturity. An art song is a usually through-compose song for solo voice and accompaniment (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Liszt called Schubert "the most poetical musician that ever was." Schumann was equally complimentary, saying that "Schubert’s pencil was dipped in moonbeams and in the flame of the sun (Whiteside9)." Schubert gave the German folk song a life again. Schubert’s piano pieces Impromptus, Op. 90 and 140 explored a new kind of mood and helped develop an encyclopedia of the 19th century piano style. Schubert also showed us how to pack so much tragedy and emotion into a movement that some people wouldn’t think was possible. He does this in his Symphony Number 8, Unfinished. Then there is the Symphony No. 9. According to Gregg Whiteside, the (Great) Symphony No. 9, about which Schumann said, “Here, beside sheer musical mastery of the technique of composition is life in every fiber, color in the finest shadings, meaning everywhere, the acutest etching of detail, and all flooded with