If you would have told Austrian composer Franz Schubert that an ensemble of musicians, led by American expatriate Bryan Benner, would be reimagining his classical scores nearly 200 years later, he ...
However, there is no denying the fact that the last two years of Schubert’s life were extraordinarily productive. From his “Drei Klavierstücke, D. 946,” to the song cycle “Winterreise,” perhaps there ...
When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit ...
The story of Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was one of the most tragic in classical music. When historians look back on his work, they view it equal in every measure to that of Mozart, ...
Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked on ...
One piano, four hands, and the beautiful music of Franz Schubert! In this classical piano performance, two pianists share a single instrument to play Schubert together. Known as a four-hand piano duet ...
Songs were the start of it for Lise Davidsen. Before she became the world’s most renowned operatic soprano, hailed as the voice of the moment, Davidsen was a 15-year-old singer-songwriter, strumming ...
His music occupied four of the top five places in the Classic 100: Chamber Music survey, but that was only one field of music in which Franz Schubert excelled. Some call him the greatest songwriter of ...
The 51st person we are picking is Mr. Franz Schubert.As the composer of "The Erlking" and "Heidenröslein," he is familiar to ...