The composer Franz Schubert ranks with the greatest of classical music composers – but it wasn’t always that way.
With the latest vicissitudes of Riccardo Muti dominating the local news over the last seven days, perhaps the vicissitudes of another famous musician, Franz Schubert, are just the distraction worried ...
The music that Franz Schubert composed in the last year of his life, some of it when he was not quite 31, is astounding. The 20th-century composer Benjamin Britten went so far as to suggest that “the ...
The Symphony Center Presents Piano Series began Sunday afternoon the way it had ended in May, with Paul Lewis taking his listeners on an absorbing adventure into Schubert. Orchestra Hall was ...
Jeffrey Siegel’s 20th-anniversary season of his Keyboard Conversations at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts continues with piano compositions by Franz Schubert. To explain why the composer ...
Every morning at 6:00 a.m., he commenced writing music, and he continued until 1:00 p.m. before taking a break. Some say he composed more than 65 bars of music each day. Before he died a tragic death ...
Maestro Michael Laus is exploring the relationship between the music of composers Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt with a piano recital at the Manoel Theatre on Saturday. The two composers had more than ...
Great Composers Month continues on the Full Works Concert with three spectacular works from the genius that was Franz Schubert. During a career lasting less than 20 years, Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ...
For years, CDs have arrived each week by the dozen, their styles, careers, and time periods all competing for my attention. I would get to them all eventually, I told myself — when I was idled or sick ...