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Franz Peter Schubert was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 31, 1797, the fourth son of Franz Theodor Schubert, a schoolmaster, and Elizabeth Vietz, a domestic servant in Vienna.
The most brilliant pianist of his day, Franz Liszt was also a distinguished composer of great originality and a major figure in the whole of Romantic music. Liszt was born on Oct. 22, 1811, in Raiding, Hungary. His father was employed by the Esterhazy family as a steward at Raiding and was himself an amateur musician.