Ferdinand Schubert (composer)

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Ferdinand Schubert, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber around 1850

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert (born October 18, 1794 in Lichtental (Vienna) near Vienna , † February 26, 1859 in Vienna) was an Austrian composer and brother of Franz Schubert . He is also said to have designed the tombstone for the grave of Ludwig van Beethoven .

Life

Ferdinand Schubert was an Austrian teacher, organist and composer who is known less for his own compositions than for his importance in the transmission of the complete works of his younger brother Franz Schubert . He received his musical training in piano and violin first from his father Franz Theodor Schubert and his older brother Ignaz, later from Michael Holzer and finally from the public teacher of St. Anna's Harmony, Joseph Drechsler . In his autobiographical sketch he attributes the rest of his musical education to “dealing with his brother Franz”.

From 1810 Schubert worked as an organist at the Lichtentaler parish church , parallel to his work as an assistant teacher in an orphanage in Vienna, which he started in the same year. Four years later (1816) he was employed there as a real teacher. In 1816 he married Anna Schüler. In the same year he performed the German Funeral Mass (Deutsches Requiem D 621) composed by Franz Schubert for the first time as his own work.

In 1820 Ferdinand Schubert became a teacher and rain choir in Alt-Lerchenfeld , but two years later (1824) he was appointed teacher at the normal secondary school near St. Anna, where he also became the first representative of the St. Anna music club in 1829. After his first wife died, Schubert married Therese Spazierer in 1832. There were a total of 29 children from his two marriages, but only 12 of them survived. His appointment as a member of the Comité der Gesellschaft-Concerte followed in 1834, and only four years later (1838) he received an honorary professorship for organ playing at the Conservatory. Since he was admired in professional circles for his outstanding work as a school councilor, he was appointed director of the normal secondary school near St. Anna in 1851.

Ferdinand Lukas Schubert kept a considerable part of the estate of his brother Franz and also made copies of his works. With the exception of operas, masses and symphonies, which were considered unsaleable, he offered Diabelli numerous manuscripts of his brother in 1828 , the songs of which appeared as "postponed musical poems" between 1830 and 1850. He also wrote numerous educational writings as well as a number of sacred compositions and smaller pieces for school use, but occasionally also used works by his brother (e.g. Shepherd's Mass op. 13, the Kyrie D 45) or even had them printed under his own name the German Funeral Mass op.2 and the Salve Regina op.12, which he orchestrated.

Although Schubert tried very hard throughout his life, his family lived in poor economic circumstances, so that after his death "calls for the support of his bereaved" appeared.

Musical works (selection)

  • Shepherds' mass, opus 13
  • Salve Regina, opus 12
  • Mass in F major (1830), opus 10
  • Filiae Regum
  • Regina Coeli
  • Requiem op.9

Pedagogical writings (selection)

  • The small, hard-working mental calculator. A gift for children who do not want to forget arithmetic [...]. Vienna, printed by Georg Überreuter, 1829. (Faculty edition Vienna 1976, afterword by Hansjörg Krug)
  • The little geographer. Vienna 1833.
  • Small surveyor or first lesson in geometry. 2nd edition Vienna 1836.
  • Brief description of the Austrian imperial state. For use by the youth. 5th, verb. Edition of the "small Austrian". Vienna 1853.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Schubert, Ferdinand (Schulmann) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 27–29 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Hilmar : Ferdinand Schubert's sketch for an autobiography. In: Franz Grasberger, Othmar Wessely (ed.): Schubert studies. Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0263-1 , pp. 86–117.
  • Werner Felix, Wolfgang Marggraf , Vera Reising, Gerd Schönefelder: Music history - a plan. Part 1. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1984, DNB 850163013 , p. 454.
  • Alexander Weinmann : Ferdinand Schubert. An investigation (= contributions to the history of the Alt-Wiener Musikverlag. Series 1, Composers, Vol. 4). Krenn, Vienna 1986, OCLC 18956301 .
  • Ignaz Weinmann:  Schubert, Ferdinand Lukas. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 12 (Schoberlechner - Symphonic Poetry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1965, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 104–106 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 67.682–67.686)
  • Peter Gülke : Franz Schubert and his time. Laaber-Verlag, Regensburg 1991, ISBN 3-89007-266-6 , pp. 17, 44 ff.
  • Martha Böhm-Schubert: 400 years of family chronicle. Volume 2: Franz Schubert's brother. Ferdinand Schubert and the school system. Self-published, Vienna 1999; Volume 3 u. 4: Ferdinand Schubert's offspring. Self-published, Vienna 2000/2001.
  • Irmtraud Löwy: Ferdinand Schubert's compositions for children's voices in the historical context of his time. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2002.
  • Maurice JE Brown:  Schubert, Ferdinand. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Michael Kube:  Schubert, Ferdinand Lukas. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 15 (Schoof - Stranz). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1135-7 , Sp. 74-75 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Till Gerrit Waidelich: Ferdinand Schubert (1794-1859) and his tradition of family correspondence. In: Michael Kube u. a. (Ed.): Schubert and posterity . 1st international workshop on the Schubert reception in Vienna 2003; Congress report. Katzbichler, Munich / Salzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87397-196-7 , pp. 251-269.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Depending on the source , the different birthday is given on October 19, 1794 and the different date of death on February 28, 1859; compare Constantin von Wurzbach : Schubert, Ferdinand (Schulmann) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 32nd part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 27 ( digital copy ).
  2. ↑ On a subpage of the same website it says with regard to a "Beethoven's grave monument on the Währinger Friedhofe near Vienna" dated to the year 1847, formulated more carefully with "probably": "With the monogram" E. " inscribed drawing with the image of the tomb probably designed by Ferdinand Schubert ”; compare the corresponding page [undated], last accessed on June 12, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ Schubert, Ferdinand . In: Wilibald Gurlitt (Ed.): Riemann Musiklexikon . 12th, completely revised edition. Persons part: L-Z . Schott, Mainz 1961, p. 638 .
  3. ↑ oV : Beethoven's grave times on the side of the Beethoven House in Bonn [no date], as last accessed on 12 June 2017
  4. ↑ Ignaz Weinmann:  Schubert, Ferdinand Lukas. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 12 (Schoberlechner - Symphonic Poetry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1965, DNB 550439609 , Sp. 104–106 (= Digital Library Volume 60, pp. 67.682–67.686)
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schubert, Ferdinand Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1859
Place of death Vienna