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

I first got to know the 20 songs of Franz Schubert’s “Die Schöne Müllerin” (“The Beautiful Miller Girl”) as an impressionable teenager, some 40 years ago. It might seem at first sight ...

Franz Schubert wrote over 600 songs during his short life and, naturally, some have captured the attention of singers, pianists and listeners more than others over the decades. His top-shelf songs ...

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 ...

On Oct. 19, 1814, an Austrian teenager named Franz Schubert wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," a boldly innovative song that remains an inspiration for singers and songwriters.

On Oct. 19, 1814, an Austrian teenager named Franz Schubert wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," a boldly innovative song that remains an inspiration for singers and songwriters.

On Oct. 19, 1814, an Austrian teenager named Franz Schubert wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," a boldly innovative song that remains an inspiration for singers and songwriters.

On Oct. 19, 1814, an Austrian teenager named Franz Schubert wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," a boldly innovative song that remains an inspiration for singers and songwriters.

Thomas Meglioranza first heard Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs, when he was 18.“That got me hooked on singing classical music,” said award-winning baritone Meglioranza, who ...

Franz Peter Schubert came of prolific peasant stock. His father, Franz Schubert, parish schoolmaster of Lichtenthal, now a suburb of Vienna, had 14 children by his first wife, five by his second.

For a composer who didn’t live to see his 32nd birthday, Franz Schubert left an indelible mark on the world. “His professional career — the time he spent composing — was only 18 years ...

Jesse Blumberg, a greatly gifted young baritone from New York, presented Franz Schubert’s song cycles “Die schone Mullerin” and “Winterreise,” with the veteran pianist Martin Katz as his ...