The passage provides biographical details about the classical composer Franz Schubert. It notes that he was born in Vienna in 1797 to a schoolteacher father who provided him early musical training. At age 6, Schubert began basic lessons from his father, and a year later enrolled in his father's school. By age 7 he was receiving formal musical training outside his family. The passage discusses Schubert's prolific output of music before his untimely death from syphilis at age 31, after which he was buried near his idol Ludwig van Beethoven.