| 1797 |
Born in Vienna on January 31 |
| 1806 |
Studies with Michael Hölzer at the Liechtental church |
| 1808 |
Becomes a choirboy in the Imperial Court Chapel and enters the Stadtkonvikt boarding school |
| 1810 |
Composes the Fantasy in D
(D1) |
| 1811 |
Composes Hagars Klage
(D5) and other songs |
| 1812 |
His mother dies; writes part of Der Spiegelritter
(D11) |
| 1813 |
Leaves the Stadtkonvikt; First Symphony (D82) |
| 1814 |
Successful performances of the Mass in F (D105); composes Gretchen am Spinnrade
(D118) and nearly 150 other songs; begins teaching at his father’s school |
| 1815 |
Erlkönig
(D328) and many other songs to Goethe poems in particular; completes his Second Symphony (D125) and writes his Third (D200); writes two Masses (D167 and 324) and four operas (D190, 220, 239, 326) |
| 1816 |
Fourth and Fifth Symphonies (D417, 485); songs set to Goethe’s texts are sent to the poet, but Schubert gets no response; stops teaching |
| 1817 |
Meets Johann Michael Vogl |
| 1818 |
First song printed (D586); spends the summer teaching for the Esterházy family in Zseliz; in the fall Schubert moves to inner city and lives with Johann Mayrhofer; completes Sixth Symphony (D589) |
| 1819 |
“Trout” Quintet (D667); travels with Vogl during summer; first public performance of a song (D121) |
| 1820 |
Arrested with his friend Johann Chrisostomus Senn; performances of Die Zwillingsbrüder
(D647) at the Kärntnerthor Theater and of Die Zauberharfe
(D644) at the Theater an der Wien; composes the oratorio Lazarus
(D689) |
| 1821 |
Erlkönig
published as Op. 1; important public performances, publications, and reviews |
| 1822 |
“Unfinished” Symphony (D759); “Wanderer” Fantasy (D760); completes the opera Alfonso und Estrella
(D732) |
| 1823
|
Illness; Die schöne Müllerin
(D795); Fierrabras
(D796); Rosamunde
(D797); Die Verschworenen
(D787) |
| 1824 |
Second trip to Zseliz; Octet (D803), String Quartets in A Minor (D804) and D Minor (D810) |
| 1825 |
Travels with Vogl to Upper Austria; begins composition of the “Great” C Major Symphony (D944) |
| 1826 |
String Quartet in G Major (D887) |
| 1827 |
Beethoven dies on March 26, Schubert is torch bearer at his funeral; begins the opera Der Graf von Gleichen
(D918); completes Mass in A flat (D678); Winterreise
(D911); Trio in E Flat (D929) |
| 1828 |
E flat Major Mass (D950); the C Major String Quintet (D956); Fantasy in F Minor for piano four hands (D940); last three piano sonatas in C Minor, A Major, and B flat Major (D958–60); Schubert’s public concert given on March 26; dies on November 19 |
| 1829 |
Schwanengesang
(D957) published |
| 1839 |
Last three piano sonatas published Mendelssohn premieres “Great” C Major Symphony |
| 1853 |
Octet and String Quintet in C published |
| 1863 |
The bodies of Schubert and Beethoven are exhumed from Währing Cemetery for scientific study |
| 1865 |
Premiere of the “Unfinished” Symphony; publication in Vienna of the first extended Schubert biography |
| 1872 |
Statue of Schubert is dedicated in Vienna’s Stadtpark |
| 1884 |
Collected edition of Schubert’s works begins to appear from Breitkopf und Härtel (ASA
) |
| 1888 |
The bodies of Schubert and Beethoven are exhumed a second time and moved to Vienna’s Central Cemetery |
| 1897 |
Schubert Centennial, collected edition is completed |