Schubert died in Vienna, aged 31, on 19 November 1828, at the apartment of his brother
Ferdinand.
The cause of his death was officially diagnosed as typhoid fever.
Schubert was buried, at his own request, near the grave of Beethoven, whom he had
admired all his life, in the village cemetery of Währing on the edge of the Vienna Woods.
A year earlier he had served as a torchbearer at Beethoven's funeral.
In 1872, a memorial
to Franz Schubert was erected in Vienna's Stadtpark.
In 1888, both Schubert's and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof where
they are next to the later graves of Johann Strauss II and Johannes Brahms.
Anton Bruckner was present at both exhumations, and he reached into both coffins and
held the revered skulls in his hands.
The cemetery in Währing was converted into a park in 1925, called the Schubert Park, and
his former grave site was marked by a bust.
His epitaph, written by his friend, the poet
Franz Grillparzer, reads: Die Tonkunst begrub hier einen reichen Besitz, aber noch viel
schönere Hoffnungen ("The art of music has here interred a precious treasure, but yet far
fairer hopes").
