Franz von Schober, by Leopold Kupelwieser

Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober (born 17 May 1796,

Torup Castle Torup Castle ( sv, Torups slott) is a castle in Svedala Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is situated approximately east of Malmö. It was constructed by Görvel Fadersdotter (Sparre) for her son, after the death of her second spouse, ...

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, Sweden; died 13 September 1882 in

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), was an Austrian

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or w ...

, librettist,

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actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

in Breslau and ''Legationsrat'' in

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. Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden. Educated in the

Schnepfenthal Salzmann School The Schnepfenthal Institution (Salzmannschule Schnepfenthal) is a boarding school in the district of Gotha, Germany, founded in 1784. In addition to compulsory education in English and German, students in 6th grade choose from Arabic, Chinese an ...

Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna) The Akademisches Gymnasium is a state gymnasium school located in Vienna, Austria. Founded by the Jesuits in March 1553, it is the oldest secondary school in Vienna and is now nondenominational and non-feepaying. The school offers a humanistic ed ...

and Kremsmünster Abbey, he returned to

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, where he began to study

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and met the composer

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast ''oeuvre'', including more than 600 secular vocal wo ...

, his friends

Johann Mayrhofer Johann Baptist Mayrhofer (22 October 17875 February 1836) was an Austrian poet and librettist. He is best known for his close friendship with the composer Franz Schubert. Biography Mayrhofer was born in Steyr, educated at Novitiate in St. Fl ...

, Joseph von Spaun and the painters Leopold Kupelwieser and Moritz von Schwind. He also knew

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

during his later years and their relationship culminated when he visited him on Beethoven’s deathbed along with Schubert. Between 1823 and 1825, Schober was an actor at the theatre in Breslau under the pseudonym "Torupson". In the 1840s, Schober was in close contact with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

. In 1856 he married the author

Thekla von Gumpert Thekla Charlotte von Gumpert (married Thekla von Schober; 28 June 1810 in Kalisz, Kalisch- 1 April 1897 in Dresden) was a German children's and youth writer. Life Origin Thekla von Gumpert was born in Kalisch as the third of five children of ...

; afterwards he lived in Budapest, Munich and Dresden. Schober wrote lyric poetry and in 1821 the

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major li ...

for

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Alfonso und Estrella ' (''Alfonso and Estrella''), 732, is an opera with music by Franz Schubert, set to a German libretto by Franz von Schober, written in 1822. Along with the later '' Fierrabras'', composed in 1823, it marks Schubert's attempt to compose grand Rom ...

'' and other vocal pieces.

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* Gedichte (1842

* Gedichte (1865

References

Constant von Wurzbach Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author. Biography He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...

: ''Schober, Franz von''. In: ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich''. Band 31, 62–65.
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– with wrong year of birth * Mária Eckhardt: ''Franz von Schober. Schuberts und Liszts Dichterfreund'', in: Schubert durch die Brille 18. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1997, 69–79. * Mária Eckhardt: ''Schubert's and Liszt's friend and poet: Franz von Schober''. in: Liszt Saeculum 1, Budapest 1996, Nr. 56, 13 – 19. * Ilija Dürhammer: ''"Affectionen einer lebhaft begehrenden Sinnlichkeit". Der "Sch''o''bert"-Kreis zwischen "neuer Schule" und Weltschmerz'', in: Walther Dürr, S. Schmalzriedt, Th. Seyboldt (ed.): Schuberts Lieder nach Gedichten aus seinem literarischen Freundeskreis. Auf der Suche nach dem Ton der Dichtung in der Musik. Kongreßbericht Ettlingen 1997. Frankfurt a. M. 1999, 39–58. *

Siegfried Schmalzriedt Siegfried Schmalzriedt (4 April 1941 – 9 December 2008) was a German musicologist, University lecturer and vice-rector of the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Life and career Born in Stuttgart, Schmalzriedt studied musicology, Roman philolog ...

: ''"Meiner Seele Saiten streift". Franz von Schobers Lyrik in Franz Schuberts Vertonungen'', In: Walther Dürr, S. Schmalzriedt, Th. Seyboldt (Hg.): ''Schuberts Lieder nach Gedichten aus seinem literarischen Freundeskreis. Auf der Suche nach dem Ton der Dichtung in der Musik. Kongreßbericht Ettlingen 1997.'' Frankfurt a. M. 1999, 59–80. * Ilija Dürhammer: ''Schuberts literarische Heimat. Dichtung und Literatur-Rezeption der Schubert-Freunde'', Wien-Köln-Weimar 1999. * Michael Kohlhäufl: ''Poetisches Vaterland. Dichtung und politisches Denken im Freundeskreis Franz Schuberts'', Kassel 1999. *

Rita Steblin Rita Katherine Steblin (April 22, 1951 – September 3, 2019)
obituary, ''Figures of Speech'' was a

: ''The Schober family's "tiefe sittliche Verdorbenheit" as revealed in spy reports from 1810 about Ludovica and her mother'', in: Schubert durch die Brille 29. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2002, 39–65. * Michael Lorenz: ''Die Familie Schober und ihr genealogisches Umfeld'', in: Schubert durch die Brille 30. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 2003.
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* Till Gerrit Waidelich: ''„Torupson“ und Franz von Schober – Leben und Wirken des von Frauen, Freunden und Biographen umworbenen Schubert- und Schwind-Freundes'', in: Schubert:Perspektiven 6 (2006), Heft 1 und 2 - Sonderheft, S. 1–237. ISSN 1617-6340. Content and Index in: Schubert:Perspektiven 7 (2007), 107–120. * Rita Steblin: ''Schober’s Love Affair with Marie von Spaun and the Role Played by Helene Schmith, the Wife of Mozart’s First Violinist'', in: Schubert:Perspektiven 8 (2008), 48–86.

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