Schubert: Symphonies.5 & 8 / Rosamunde - Ballet Music

Vienna has always claimed Franz Schubert as its own. Of his immediate predecessors, Haydn came from the village of Rohrau, Mozart came to the city from provincial Salzburg, while Beethoven travelled there from his native Bonn. Schubert was born in Vienna and spent most of his life there. His family, however, were from another part of the Habsburg empire. Schubert's father, Franz Theodor, was from Moravia and his mother from Silesia. The former had joined his elder brother as a schoolmaster in the capital, while the latter's father had been driven there after financial troubles at home.