App Detail » Schubert - interactive book

Published by: Evgeny Erohin

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $4.99
Current Version: 3.0
Released: January 21, 2016

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New version of interactive reading

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Study the biographies of great people through interactive reading.
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Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert died at 31 but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited to a relatively small circle of admirers in Vienna, but interest in his work increased significantly in the decades following his death. Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers discovered and championed his works. Today, Schubert is ranked among the greatest composers of the late Classical era and early Romantic era and is one of the most frequently performed composers of the early nineteenth century. Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria on 31 January 1797. His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elisabeth, was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith and had been a housemaid for a Viennese family before marriage....