CZERNY.
DONIZETTI.
Czerny was born in the year 1794, and wrote many studies for the piano.
How much older was he than Franz Schubert?
Von Weber wrote operas and conducted them himself. He was born eleven years before Schubert.
Rossini was an Italian composer of operas, born in 1792, five years before Schubert. Schubert's life was so short, however, that Rossini lived forty years longer than the great song writer.
Donizetti was an Italian opera composer. One of his well-known operas was Lucia di Lammermoor. He was born in 1797, just as Schubert was.
Franz's father was a schoolmaster, and so was Franz himself for three years.
He taught the little children of Vienna their A-B-C's, and how to do sums. Of course, he helped them to learn to read.