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SCHUBAET SCHUBERT 279
Winterfeld says of these hymns that they
belong to the best musical works of the time ;
the harmony is rich, clear, and dignified, and
shows an unmistakable adyance on the path of
the older masters. They are in the same style
as the Hymns of Palestrina and Vittoria, only
the choral melody is mostly given to the upper
voice. Some of these hymns, as well as some
of the German psalms of GaUus Dressier,
Schroeter's predecessor, are re -published in
Schoberlein and Riegel's Schatz des Hturgischen
Chm-gesangs, Gbttingen, 1868-72. [Earlier
publications of hymn-tunes by Schroeter were
published in 1562, 1576, 1584, etc. See the
Quellen-Lexikon for list.] Four Weihnachts-
Liedlein of Schroeter's are received into the
repertoire of the Berlin Dom-Chor, and are
published in Sohlesinger's Musica ' Sacra, ' No.
11. A German Te Deum for double choir by
Schroeter, originally published in 1576, has
been printed by Otto Kade in the Notenbeilagen
to Ambros's Gesch. der Musilc, No. 28. j. E. M.
SCHUBAET, Christian Feiedrich Daniel,
bom at Obersontheim in Suabia, in 1739,' and
brought up, not as a musician, at Kbrdlingen,
Nuremberg, and Erlangen. In 1768 we find
him as organist at Ludwigsburg. His life seems
to have been a very wild and irregular one, but
he must have been a man of great talent and
energy to justify the eulogies on him so frequent
in the early volumes of the Allg. itmsikalische
Zeitung, of Leipzig (see vol. ii. pp. 78, 98, etc.),
and the constant references of Otto Jahn in his
Life of Mozart. He lived in Mannheim, Munich,
Augsburg, and Ulm ; founded a Deutsche Ohromik
in 1744 ;
was more than once in confinement
for his misdeeds, and at length was imprisoned
from 1777 to 1787 at Hohenasperg. [On his
release he was appointed director of the court
theatre ; his paper changed its title to Vaterlavds-Chronik,
and appeared from 1787 until
the year of his death.] He died Oct. 10, 1791.
An autobiography, written in prison, appeared
in 1 791-93. His compositions are few and unimportant.
[They include a set of ' Musicalische
Rhapsodien,' a 'Salve Eegina,' variations, and
other clavier pieces.] A work of his on musical
aesthetics, Ideen zu einer AesthetOc der TonTewnst,
was published after his death by his son Ludwig
(Vienna, 1806). From the notices of it in the
A.M.Z. (viii. 801, xiii. 53, etc.) and Jahn's citations,
it appears to be partly a dissertation on
the styles, abilities, and characteristics of great
musicians and artists. It also contains some
fanciful descriptions of the various keys, which
Schumann notices {pes. Schriften, i. 180) only
to condemn. But Sehubart will always be
known as the author of the words of one of F.
Schubert's most favourite songs— 'DieForelle'
(op. 32). The words of 'An den Tod' and
'
Grablied auf einen Soldaten ' are also his. His
1 The dar is given in the QueKeji'Zexiiton as March 26, and in
Biemann's LexUcon as A pell 13.
;
son further published two vols, of his Vermisekte
Schriften (Ziirich, 1812). G.
SCHUBERT, Ferdinand, one of the elder
brothers of Franz Schubert, second son of his
father (see p. 280), born at Vienna, Oct. 19,
1794. After passing the two-years' course at
the Normal School of St. Anna in 1807-8, he
became his father's assistant at the school in
the Lichtenthal. In Nov. 181 he was installed
as assistant (Gehilfe), and in 1816 teacher, at
the Imperial Orphan House (Waisenhaus) in
Vienna, where he continued till March 1820,
devotinghimself specially to the Bell-Lancastrian
method. He was then appointed principal
teacher and choirmaster to the school at Altlerchenfeld,
Vienna, till 1824, when he was
nominated to be head teacher of the Normal
School of St. Anna, which he held from Jan. 22,
1824, till his appointment as director of the
same establishment on March 15, 1854. This
position he retained till his death on Feb. 28,
1859. His merits were recognised by the
bestowal of the Gold Cross of Merit (Verdienstkreuze),
with the Crown. During this
long period of useful and efficient service he
was twice married, and had in all seventeen
children, of whom Ferdinand, Rudolf, and
Hermann were living in Vienna in 1882. His
daughter Elise married Linus Geisler, and their
daughter, Caroline Geisler - Schubert, had a
successful career in Vienna as a player and
teacher. She is now living in England. Between
1819 and 1853 Ferdinand published
twelve school-books on various branches of
learning, which came into general use. Music
he learnt from his father and from Holzer, and
left more than forty works, of which the following
were published :—Eegina Coeli, a 4 and
orch. (op. 1) ;
German Requiem, a 4 with organ
(op. 2)
; 4 Waisenlieder (op. 3) ; Cadenzas for
PF. in all keys (op. 4) ; Requiem a 4 and orch.
(op. 9) ; Mass in F, a 4 and orch. (op. 10) ;
Salv* Regina in F, a 4 and orch. (op. 11) ;
Salve Eegina a 4 and wind (op. 12) ; original
March and Trio. The MS. works contain
various other pieces of church music. Of the
two Eequiems the first is mentioned in his
brother's letter of August 24, 1818 (see p. 291)
the second was performed a few days before
Franz's death, and was possibly the last music
he heard. The library of the Musikverein at
Vienna contains the autogi-aph of Franz Schubert's
Mass in G, with oboes (or clarinets) and
bassoons, added by Ferdinand, July 23, 1847.
Ferdinand's love for his brother and care of
his memory have been often referred to in the
following article (pp. 317, 319, 320). An interesting
evidence of their attachment is afforded by
a letter ^ of his to Franz, dated Vienna, July 3,
1824, and containing the following passage in
regard to a clock at the Ungarische Krone in
Vienna, which played his brother's music :
^
I owe this letter to Miss Geialer-Schubert.
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