(单词翻译:单击)
Franz Schubert was born on January 31st 1797 in Vienna, Austria.
弗朗茨·舒伯特于1797年1月31日出生于奥地利的维也纳。
As a child he showed great promise with his musical ability.
当他还是个孩子的时候，他的音乐才能就显示出极大的潜力。
He learned violin from his father, Franz Theodor, and piano from his brother Ignaz.
他向父亲弗朗茨·西奥多学习小提琴，向哥哥伊格纳兹学习钢琴。
From the age of 17, Schubert taught at the same school where his father worked as a school master.
从17岁开始，舒伯特就在其父亲担任校长的学校教书。
However, he quit after only 3 years to focus on composing.
然而，仅仅工作了3年后，他就辞职了，专注于作曲。
During his brief 15 year career as a composer he wrote over 600 lieder, or what we now call “songs”.
在他短暂的15年作曲生涯中，他创作了600多首抒情曲，也就是我们现在所说的“歌曲”。
Schubert set many of his lieder to the poems of the well-known German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
舒伯特的许多抒情曲都是根据德国著名作家约翰·沃尔夫冈·冯·歌德的诗歌创作的，
including “Erlkonig” which tells of a desperate father’s ride through the night to save his dying son from the hands of Death.
其中包括《魔王》，讲述了一位绝望的父亲夜深人静，从死神手中救出奄奄一息的儿子的故事。
Although he is best known as the first master of Romantic lied,
虽然舒伯特以浪漫主义的首位大师而闻名，
Schubert composed many outstanding pieces such as String Quartet No 14 in D minor “Death And The Maiden” and the “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8.
但他也创作了许多杰出的作品，如D小调第14弦乐四重奏《死与少女》和《b小调第八交响曲（未完成）》。
Though they never formally met, Schubert attended the funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven as a pallbearer in 1827, less than 2 years before his own death.
尽管他们从未正式见过面，但舒伯特在1827年作为护柩者参加了路德维希·凡·贝多芬的葬礼，离他去世还不到两年。
Schubert died of typhus in Vienna, Austria on November 19th 1828 at the age of 31.
舒伯特于1828年11月19日在奥地利维也纳死于斑疹伤寒，享年31岁。
