Though the quantity of Schubert’s output is astonishing enough, it is the quality of his melodic invention and the richness of his harmonic conception that are the most remarkable features of his work. Despite his daily classroom routine, Schubert managed to compose 145 songs in 1815, together with four stage works, two symphonies, two masses and a large number of chamber pieces. Compositions soon began to flow, although teaching duties interrupted progress. His father, eager that Franz should qualify as a teacher and work in the family’s schoolhouse, encouraged the boy to return home in 1814. He was educated at the Imperial City College, where he received lessons from the composer Salieri. He rapidly became more proficient than his teachers, and showed considerable musical talent, so much so that in 1808 he became a member of Vienna’s famous Imperial court chapel choir. In childhood, Schubert was taught violin by his schoolmaster father and piano by his eldest brother.
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