Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

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Euryanthe ' and Rosamunde,' who though not
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by faith in God and the Blessed Sacraments,' '3 dress coats, 3 walking coats, 10 pairs of
writing to announce the loss of his beloved
' trousers, 9 waistcoats—togetherworth 37 florins
son, Franz Schubert, musician and composer '
1 hat, 5 pairs of shoes and 2 of boots—valued
1828 SCHUBERT 1828 317
deserve a place above ground ? ' Dear Franz, denial his dear brother rested if not next, yet
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said the agonised brother, ' be calm ; trust your near to the great musician, whom he so deeply
brother Ferdinand, whom you have always reverenced and admired. Late in the afternoon
trusted, and who loves you so dearly. You are Wilhelm von Chezy, son of the authoress of
in the room which you always had, and lying
on your own bed.' 'No,' said the dying man, in Schubert's intimate circle was yet one of his acquaintances,
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that's not true ; Beethoven is not here. ' So
by some accident remembered that
strongly had the great composer taken possession
he had not seen him for many months, and he
of him ! An hour or two later the doctor walked down to Bogner's cofiee-house, where the
came, and spoke to him in the same style. composer was usually to be found between five
Schubert looked him full in the face and made and seven, smoking his pipe and joking with his
no answer : but turning round clutched at the friends, and where the Cooper's novels mentioned
wall with his poor tired hands, and said in a in his note to Schober were not improbably still
slow earnest voice,
' Here, here, is my end. waiting for him. He found the little room
At three in the afternoon of Wednesday the 1 9th almost empty, and the familiar round table deserted.
On entering he was accosted by the
Nov. 1828 he breathed his last, and his simple
earnest soul took its flight from the world. He waiter— 'Your honour is soon back from the
was thirty-one years, nine months, and nineteen funeral !
' Whose funeral ' said Chezy in
days old. There never has been one like him, astonishment.
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Franz Schubert's,' replied the
and there never will be another.
His death, and the letters of the elder Franz
waiter, he ' died two days ago, and is buried this
afternoon. ^ '
and of Ferdinand, bring out the family relations He left no will. The ofiicial inventory ' of his
in a very pleasant light. The poor pious possessions at the time of his death, in which
bereaved father, still at his drudgery as ' school he is described as ' Tonkiinstler und Compositeur
and composer— is as follows :
teacher in the Rossan, ' ' afflicted, yet strengthened
the good innocent Ferdinand, evidently recognised
at 2 florins ; 4 shirts, 9 cravats and pocket hand-
as Franz's peculiar property, clinging kerchiefs, 13 pairs of socks, 1 towel, 1 sheet, 2
to his brother as the one great man he had ever bedcases— 8 florins ; 1 mattress, 1 bolster, 1
kno^vu ; thinking only of him, and of fulfilling quilt— 6 florins ; a quantity of old mxisio valued
his last wish to lie near Beethoven,—these form at 10 florins—63 florins (say £2 : 10s.) in all.
a pair of interesting figures. Neither Ignaz nor Beyond the above there were no eff'ects. ' Is it
Carl appear at all in connection with the event,
the father and Ferdinand alone are visible.
possible then, that in the ' old music, valued at
8s. 6d., ' are included the whole of his unpublished
The funeral took place on Friday Nov. 21. manuscripts ? Where else could they be but in
It was bad weather, but a number of friends and the house he was inhabiting ?
sympathisers assembled. He lay in his coffin, The expenses of the illness and funeral
dressed, as the custom then was, like a hermit, amounted in all to 269 silver floiins, 19 kr. (say
with a crown of laurel round his brows. The £27). Of this the preliminary service cost 84 fl.
face was calm, and looked more like sleep than 35 kr. ; the burial 44 fl. 45 kr. ; and the ground
death. By desire of the family Schober was 70 fl. ; leaving the rest for the doctor's fees and
chief mourner. The coffin left the house at incidental disbursements. Illness and death
half-past two, and was borne by a group of young were truly expensive luxuries in those days.
men, students and others, in red cloaks and On Nov. 27, the Kii'chenmusikverein performed
flowers, to the little church of S. Joseph in
Mozart's Requiem in his honour ; and
Margarethen, where the funeral service was said, on Dec. 23 a requiem by Anselm Hiittenbrenner
and a motet by Gansbacher, and a hymn of was given in the Augustine church. On Dec.
Sohober's, Der ' Friede sey mit dir, du engelreine 14, his early Symphony in C, No. 6, was played
Seele '—written that morning in substitution for at the Gesellschaftsconcert, and again on March
his own earlier words, to the music of Schubert's 12, 1829. At Linz on Christmas Day there
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Pax vobiscum '—were sung over the coffin. It was a funeral ceremony with speeches and music.
was then taken to the Ortsfriedhof in the village Articles in his honour appeared in the Wiener
of Wahring, and committed to the ground, Zeitsckrift of Dec. 25 (by von Zedlitz), in the
three places higher up than the grave of Theaterzeitung of Vienna of the 20th and 27th
Beethoven. 1 In ordinary course he would have (by Blahetka) ; in the Vienna Zeitschrift fur
been buried in the cemetery at Matzleinsdorf. but Kunst of June 9, 11, 13, 1829 (by Bauernfeld)
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the appeal which he made almost with his dying in the Vienna Archiv filr GescMchte by Mayrhofer)
breath was naturally a law to the tender heart
; and memorial poems were published by
of Ferdinand, and through his piety and self- 2 Wilhelm von Chezy. Erinnerunuen aus meinen leben (1863),
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Next to Beethoven caitie Preiherr von Waaehrd
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Graf Odoiiel and Griifiu O'Donnell,' and then Schubert.
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pp. 182, 1S3.
8 Given at length by Kreieale (p. 457)—bnt entirely omitted in
the translation—and materially misquoted by Gumprecht (p. 15).