Franz Schubert
- Episode aired 1959
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People of this Our Modern 21st Century are asking themselves . . .
. . . "Does PEABODY'S IMPROBABLE HISTORY: FRANZ SCHUBERT" tell us everything that we need to know about this obscure, long-dead and virtually forgotten classic music composer of the early 1800's?" This picture concludes by depicting Franz as a Little League pitcher. This is not far from the Truth. AMADEUS viewers will recall that Wolfgang bit the dust when he was "only" age 35. However, this makes Mozart an old man compared to Franz, who kicked the bucket after just 31 years. Like Ludwig Beethoven, who lived to the ripe old age of 56, Mozart succumbed to the S. T. D. Ending with "Phyllis." PEABODY is correct in noting that it was Franz' own whim NOT to finish his Eighth Symphony, as his Ninth was completed to the final blat. However, the IMPROBABLE HISTORY does not explain how the night watchman was able to dredge Schubert's missing piano from the river and repair it. Maybe this is why the instrument, listed as black in the police report, is later shown to be brown.
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