Schubart

Schubart CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1739-91), German poet and musician, was the author of various volumes of verse and writings on music. He was a tutor and organist, and led a discreditable life, receiving ten years' imprisonment in 1777 for uttering false news in a journal conducted by him. His poems were collected and published in 2 vols in 1802, and his complete works in 8 vols., 1839-40.