Franz Schubert once tried to perform his own Wanderer Fantasy—and gave up, declaring, “The devil may play it, for I ...

In his short lifetime, legendary Austrian composer Franz Schubert wrote over 600 Lieder, or poems scored to classical music. 200 years later, a young American musician living in Vienna reimagines ...

Within that phrase lies the raison d’être of Mr. Johnson’s three-volume, 2,800-page study “Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs,” an encyclopedia in all but name, informed as much by ...

In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular event he'd just attended: "Last Friday I was excellently entertained … [Franz von] Schober [another friend ...

But among the things we learn from “The Schubert Generation” on PBS is that even Franz Schubert was in awe of Ludwig van Beethoven. Also, that Franz Schubert deserves much more attention.

See About archive blog posts. ‘Franz Schubert: His Letters and Music’ provides exactly what the title says, no more, no less.

Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his farewell on disc would be an album of music by Schubert with his son, Daniele. Now, it serves as an emotional coda. By David Allen The Danish String Quartet ...

Emily Arnold McCully. McElderry, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8878-6 A wealth of biographical detail positions McCully’s biography of Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828).

A BBC documentary a few years ago draws a line from the Adele song in my daughter’s music collection back to songs by Franz Schubert. Host Howard Goodall points out that both of these songs are ...

The music Franz Schubert wrote for the play did catch on, though. Franz Bruggen conducts the orchestra in the Entr'acte No. 3 from Schubert's score.