"Franz Schubert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will come upon a house bearing the number 54 (it was formerly numbered 72), and the curious sign of 'Zum rothen Krebsen' (the Red Crab). But your attention will at once be drawn to another feature of the house—a grey marble tablet fixed above the door, with the inscription 'Franz Schubert's Geburthaus' (the house in which Franz Schubert was born), in the centre, and on the right a lyre crowned with a star, and on the left a laurel wreath encircling ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... for Soprano or Tenor. (English, German and Italian Words.) By Franz Schubert. Philadelphia: ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... struggling for a bare subsistence he continued writing compositions, though he had no prospect of selling them or of having them played. One writer remarks on this point: "It is far from difficult to compare him in this respect with that marvellous embodiment of patience and enthusiasm, Franz Schubert; only, more fortunate than the Viennese master, the Bohemian has lived to receive his reward. Between these two men another point of resemblance appears. Neither can be charged with pushing or intriguing himself into prominence. Schubert ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton |
