Where Schubert was once an untouchable icon, he was now a musical collaborator ... Perhaps this egalitarian approach to the arts explains why Franz Schubert was able to realize his destiny as ...

The usual audience response at the end of Franz Schubert’s hourlong song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey) is stunned silence — then amazement at having experienced something special.

Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, writing string quartets that can be set beside the greatest of Haydn and Mozart, symphonies that stand comparison with Beethoven, and works for ...

That kid was Franz Schubert, and his song "Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel) put German art song — or lieder as it's called — on the map. The song's dramatic punch 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 ...

It’s only six songs/pieces of music, but it’s something: three additional Hank Williams songs, two variations on one piece originally written by Franz Schubert and one by Mozart, which keeps ...

That’s how it was for me with Sunday afternoon’s performance of Schubert’s great song cycle Winterreise. Presented in the Dallas Opera’s Titus Family Recital series, at Moody Performance ...

Premieres Friday, September 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app Franz Schubert composed 1,500 works, but his genius ...

Schubert, one of the greatest composers, understood solitude better than most mortals and made poetry of it. While 21st-century technologies are conspiring to distance us from one another ...

Admission is free. He will be performing “Winterreise” by Franz Schubert. The 24 songs of this cycle are settings of the evocative poetry by Schubert’s contemporary Wilhelm Müller. The cycle is a ...

The composer Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828, aged only 31. This article, by Roger Scruton, was first published by The Telegraph in 2012. Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre ...