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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Among the beautiful figures, whom the critical historian tries to drive back into that limbo, where an imaginary Homer flirts with a fabulous Pocahontas, we are asked to place the alleged one love of Schubert's life.
Few composers have been so overweighted with poverty or so gifted with loneliness as Franz Schubert.
Anna Milder, who had been a lady's maid, but became a famous singer and married a rich jeweller and quarrelled with Beethoven and with Spontini, was a sort of muse to Schubert, sang his songs in public, and gave him much advice.
Mary Pachler was a friend of Beethoven's, and after his death seems to have turned her friendship to Schubert, with great happiness to him.
But the legendary romance of Schubert's life occurred when he was twenty-one, and a music teacher to Carolina Esterházy.
There is no disguising the fact that Schubert, prince of musicians, was personally a hopeless little pleb.
But Schubert was too homely even for a housemaid, so in despair he turned to the young countess and loved herthey say, till death.
There is some explanation for the belief that Schubert did not dare to love or declare his love, and some reason to believe that his reticence was wise and may have saved him worse pangs, in the fact that he was only one inch more than five feet high, and yet fat and awkward; stoop-shouldered, wild-haired, small-nosed, big-spectacled, thick-lipped, and of a complexion which has been called pasty to the point of tallowness.
But Schubert either did not care, or did not dare.
Clara was to Schumann first a brilliant young sister, for whom he prophesied such a career as that of Schubert, Paganini, and Chopin, and for whom he cherished an affectionate concern.
Schumann fancied that he heard spirit voices rebuking and praising him, and he rose once in the night to write down a theme given him by the ghosts of Schubert and Mendelssohn, on which he afterward wrote variations which were never finished and were the last pathetic exercise of his magnificent mind.
And to these two bachelors there belongs a third great bachelor of music, Schubert, who is said never to have loved a woman.
Schubert was a pauper to the nth degree.
There are all sorts of bachelorhoods, and there is a wide distinction between the womanless splendour of Händel's life at court, and the unilluminated garret of Schubert's obscurity.
There have been cool-blooded bachelors like Händel, Schubert, and Brahms; there have been passionate pilgrims like Chopin, Beethoven, and Liszt, who loved many women, and married none.
v. Bergmann, Coler, Eulenbrg, B. Fränkel, Gaffky, Hirsch, Koch, Leyden, S. Neumann, Pistor, Schubert, Skreczka, Struck, Virchow, and Wollfhügel.
SEE Schubert, Franz Peter.
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FROBISHER, MARIE SCHUBERT.
Famous paintings & their stories, by Marie Schubert.
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by Marie Schubert.
SEE Schubert, Franz.