Franz Schubert, being one of the greatest composers of all times was always a financially poor man, strangely never played concerts (except once!) and was terribly disregarded by many of his contemporaries. Many accept that his genious is by no means less than that of Beethoven who was busy with his own life and showed only a bit of interest to Schubert's music.

Among his many works he wrote for the orchestra etc. we have the possibility to perform his solo piano works but also his chamber music with the piano and above all his Songs which were of course accompanied with a piano.

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It seems that he never owned a Fortepiano but hired from friends and from this certain Drawing by Moritz Ludwig von Schwind from 1821 who was a close friend of Schubert.
We obererve a clearly 5 octave (at the time almost out of date!) Viennese Fortepiano of Walter type in this picture!