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Franz Adolf Friedrich Schober, since 1801 von Schober (born
17 May 1796,
Torup Castle at
Malmö,
Sweden; died
13 September 1882 in
Dresden),
was an Austrian
poet,
librettist,
lithographer,
actor in
Breslau and Legationsrat in
Weimar. He
was a brialliant personality, flamboyantly sensual and inordinately lazy. He
was "Franz Schubert's seducer," a "bad influence in moral matters" who dragged
the composer down into "the slough of moral degradation." He was also
Schubert's best friend. He inaugurated the first Schubertiad in 1821. Schober
published the love letters written to him by Moritz von Scwind.
Schober was born to Austrian parents in Sweden. Educated in the
Schnepfenthal Salzmann School,
Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna) and
Kremsmünster Abbey, he returned to
Vienna,
where he began to study
philosophy and met the composer
Franz Schubert, his friends
Johann Mayrhofer,
Joseph von Spaun and the painters
Leopold Kupelwieser and
Moritz von Schwind. 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
Franz
Liszt. 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
libretto
for
Franz Schubert's
opera
Alfonso und Estrella and other vocal pieces.
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