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The Worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan

Franz Seraph Peter Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797 and died there in 1828 - a mere 31 years old! During his brief lifetime he composed a prodigious amount of excellent music. Many of his masterpieces are still very popular on the world music circuits.

There is a lovely story about Arthur Sullivan and Sir George Grove (of Music Dictionary fame) who travelled to Germany  and to Austria in 1867 to try to find the lost music of Franz Schubert. These lost manuscripts were eventually traced to the back of a dusty cupboard in Vienna. Their ecstasy at finding among other things five Schubert symphonies and his Rosamunde music caused them to leapfrog each other round the room! Their version of eureka!

In his tragically short life Franz prolifically wrote some of the world's most beautiful music. We have only included a small sample here but if you want more, go to your local library and search among their stocks for scores or discs. Here you will find wonderful symphonies (try his Unfinished Symphony, or his Great C Major Symphony for starters), choral music, instrumental music, songs galore . . . Just think, if only he had lived longer what would he have achieved? His music had an enormous influence on the young Arthur Sullivan. 

Here are a few little tasters . . . 

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