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

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, Sweden; died 13 September 1882 in

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), was a

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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) 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 ...

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in Breslau and ''Legationsrat'' in

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

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and

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, he returned to

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, where he began to study

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and met the composer

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, 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, Austria, educated at Novitiate i ...

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and the painters

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and

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. He also knew

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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

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. In 1856 he married the author Thekla von Gumpert; afterwards he lived in Budapest, Munich and Dresden. Schober wrote lyric poetry and in 1821 the

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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. Like ''Fierrabras (opera), Fierrabras'' (1823), it marks Schubert's attempt to compose grand Romantische ...

'' and other vocal pieces.

Publications

* Gedichte (1842

* Gedichte (1865

References

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: ''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: ''"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) was a musicologist, specializing in archival work combining music history, iconography and genealogical research. Steblin was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada; she died i ...

: ''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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