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Franz Schubert
Portrait of Franz Schubert, oil on wood by Gábor Melegh, 1827; in the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
Franz Schubert composed the Trout Quintet in 1819. He wrote the work while visiting the Austrian town of Steyr during a summer holiday with his friend and promoter, the baritone Johann Michael Vogl.12