Austrian composer Franz Schubert was taught music by his father, a local school master, from an early age. By the time he was 7 he had come to the attention of Antoino Salieri, then one of Vienna’s leading musical authority, and at 11 was enrolled into the Stadtkonvikt (imperial seminary) on a choral scholarship. Whilst he had been introduced to the piano and chamber music at home, at the Stadtkonvikt Schubert experienced the overtures and symphonies of Mozart, as well as operas and lieder. He was taught theory and composition by Salieri and began composing in ernest, producing his first symphony. In 1813 Schubert left the Stadtknovikt and returned home to train as a teacher, and soon began teaching in his father’s school. In 1816, after and unsuccessful application to become Kapellmeister