Reluctance to follow the father’s footsteps.
The nine-year-old Franz composed music, completely unmoved by his peers playing and romping noisily around him.
The father disapproved of his son’s growing interest in composition and invited him instead to choose the secure income of the teaching profession, which led to numerous conflicts between father and son.
Franz was persuaded to serve in his father’s school after completing a teaching degree. A contributing factor was that he as a teacher escaped a lengthy and burdensome military service. In the meanwhile, he continued to study composition with Antonio Salieri.
In the mornings Schubert served as a teacher while the rest of the day was devoted to his own studies in music.
