On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music.

Schubert’s final three piano sonatas are a deep exploration of loneliness, and particularly apt for our age of isolation.

Franz Schubert: a biography When Franz Schubert’s musical talent began to emerge, though it was encouraged, there were no higher ambitions than that he should grow up to be a respectful, hard-working ...

Schubert's Winterreise Clemency Burton Hill is joined, at the Morgan Library in New York, by the tenor Rufus Muller to explore the working manuscripts of Franz Schubert's great song cycle Winterreise.

Adored yet ignored; musical conservative yet trailblazing visionary; fully paid-up Classicist yet out-and-out Romantic; emotionally complex yet expressively simple –­ never have so many contradictions ...

The Schubert Club Museum adds 15 manuscripts to its collection, including letters by Brahms, Debussy and Liszt.

Clear as Glass by Hannah Niemeier On Simone Dinnerstein’s performance of Franz Schubert and Philip Glass at National Sawdust. The Brooklyn-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein has a special connection ...

Schubert Guides The Best Recordings Of Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony Despite having no final movement, this mysterious work never fails to capture the imaginations of the very best maestros and ...

While he lived, the schoolmaster’s son Franz Schubert made no great splash in the world. Intimates called him Schwammerl, or Mushroom, supposedly because he was small and round. His occasional ...

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in ...