19 moments

1. Birth at Himmelpfortgrund

   1797-01-31 · Schubert Geburtshaus, Nußdorfer Straße 54, Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

   

   Franz Peter Schubert was born in Himmelpfortgrund, then a Vienna suburb. The birthplace is now known as the Schubert Geburtshaus.

2. Pupil at his father's school

   1802-01-01 · Lichtental, Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

   

   At about age five, Schubert began regular instruction from his father and was enrolled at his father’s school in Lichtental. The year is derived from his 31 January 1797 birth date and the source's statement that he was five.

3. Entrance to the Stadtkonvikt

   1808-11-01 · Stadtkonvikt, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 1, Vienna, Austria

   

   Schubert entered Vienna’s Imperial Seminary on a choir scholarship, beginning the institutional education that exposed him to major orchestral repertoire. The present-day address marks the former Stadtkonvikt site.

4. Teacher training at St Anna

   1813-11-01 · St Anna Normalhauptschule, Annagasse 3, Vienna, Austria

   

   After leaving the Stadtkonvikt, Schubert returned home and began teacher training at the St Anna Normalhauptschule. Coordinates represent the historic St Anna school site.

5. Teaching at his father's Lichtental school

   1814-01-01 · Lichtental, Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

   

   Schubert entered his father’s school as teacher of the youngest pupils while continuing composition studies with Antonio Salieri. The source identifies the school as his father's; the coordinate represents Lichtental.

6. Guest in Schober's lodgings

   1816-01-01 · Vienna, Austria

   

   By the end of 1816, Schubert had become a guest in the lodgings of his friend Franz von Schober, a turning point away from school teaching toward full-time composition. The cited passage does not specify the lodgings' address; coordinates represent central Vienna.

7. Visit to Spaun in Landstraße

   1816-05-01 · Landstraße, Vienna, Austria

   

   Schubert spent several days with his friend Joseph von Spaun after Spaun moved to the Landstraße suburb; the visit was probably Schubert’s first away from home or school. Coordinates represent the Landstraße district because the new-home address is not supplied.

8. Teaching in Rossau

   1817-01-01 · Rossau, Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

   

   After his father received a new post at a Rossau school in late 1817, Schubert rejoined him there and resumed teaching duties. Coordinates represent the Rossau neighborhood; the school building is not identified in the cited passage.

9. Music tutor at Esterházy château

   1818-01-01 · Esterházy Château, Želiezovce, Slovakia

   

   Schubert spent the summer as music teacher to Count Johann Karl Esterházy’s family, teaching piano and singing to the count’s daughters at Zselíz. The source supports a summer stay but not a more precise arrival date.

10. Second Zselíz stay

    1824-01-01 · Esterházy Château, Želiezovce, Slovakia

    

    Schubert returned to Zselíz in the summer of 1824, where he wrote works including the Divertissement à la hongroise and the A-minor Rosamunde Quartet. The source gives only the season for this visit.

11. Six-week stay in Gmunden

    1825-01-01 · Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria

    

    Schubert’s July 1825 letter records that he had spent six weeks in Gmunden during his Upper Austria journey. The letter establishes a six-week stay but does not provide the exact dates of the Gmunden interval.

12. Return to Steyr during Upper Austria tour

    1825-07-25 · Steyr, Upper Austria, Austria

    

    During his extended 1825 Upper Austria journey with Johann Michael Vogl, Schubert wrote from Steyr that he had returned there after six weeks in Gmunden. The quoted words are from Schubert's letter dated at Steyr in July 1825; the source presents the letter date as 25 July 1825, with a parenthetical uncertainty concerning the day.

13. Composition dated at Gastein

    1825-08-01 · Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria

    

    An autograph manuscript of Das Heimweh is catalogued as dated at Gastein in August 1825, documenting Schubert’s stay in the spa town during his 1825 journey. The location and month are supplied in the catalogue record for Schubert's autograph manuscript.

14. Continuous Vienna residence

    1826-01-01 · Vienna, Austria

    

    Schubert’s final years were centered in Vienna, interrupted only by a brief documented trip to Graz in 1827. This card marks the beginning of the cited continuous-residence period; it overlaps the separately recorded Graz exception.

15. Brief visit to Graz

    1827-01-01 · Graz, Styria, Austria

    

    Graz was Schubert’s only stated exception to his otherwise continuous Vienna residence from 1826 through 1828. The source establishes only the year and that the visit was brief.

16. Torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral

    1827-03-29 · Vienna, Austria

    

    Schubert was among the torchbearers in Ludwig van Beethoven’s funeral procession in Vienna. Coordinates represent central Vienna because the procession followed a route rather than occurring at one point.

17. Only public concert of his own works

    1828-03-26 · Old Musikverein, Tuchlauben 12, Vienna, Austria

    

    Schubert’s sole public concert of his own works took place in the old Musikverein auditorium under the Tuchlauben. The original Musikverein building was later demolished; coordinates represent its former Tuchlauben 12 site.

18. Final residence in Ferdinand Schubert's flat

    1828-11-01 · Schubert Sterbewohnung, Kettenbrückengasse 6, Vienna, Austria

    

    In the period immediately before his death, Schubert lived in the Kettenbrückengasse flat of his brother Ferdinand. The source supports November 1828 but does not state the precise move-in date.

19. Death in Vienna

    1828-11-19 · Vienna, Austria

    

    Schubert died aged 31 in his brother Ferdinand’s apartment in Vienna; the official diagnosis was typhoid fever. The cited source identifies the brother's apartment but does not give its street address in this passage.