2. His birthday was January 31, 1797.
3. He died in Vienna in 1828.
4. When Schubert was born Beethoven was twenty-seven years old.
5. Schubert was a schoolmaster.
6. He had his first music lessons from his father, who was also a schoolmaster and who played the violin.
7. His brother taught him to play the piano, and he studied singing so as to join the Emperor's Choir.
8. Then he studied harmony with a famous man named Salieri.
9. When Franz was thirteen he composed two piano pieces, at fourteen he wrote two songs, and when he was sixteen he wrote a symphony.
10. When he was eighteen Franz wrote more than a hundred songs.
11. He composed The Erl-King when he was nineteen.