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 Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around ...

Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked ...

When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and ...

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.

Music in the Park Series. This series of concerts all take place on Sundays at 4 p.m. at 2129 Commonwealth Ave. David Finckel ...

The story of the Austrian composer Franz Schubert inspires pity and awe in equal measure: Stupendously gifted, he wrote music at a frenetic pace, even while often impoverished and ill from ...

Siegfried Lorenz, who has died aged 78, was an intelligent and refined German baritone with a warm and pleasing voice whose career fell under the shadow of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the pre ...

The Schubert that emerged is a bundle of contradictions. This short, squat, bespeckled genius of melody is variously reported to have been charming, depressive, jolly, morbid, hard-working, dissolute, ...

It has become a cliché to say Franz Schubert’s death in November 1828 is the greatest loss in the history of music. Yet it’s true. Mozart, who died at 35, had completed a life’s work. Schubert was 31, ...

Franz Schubert (born January 31, 1797; died November 19, 1828) was not the first of the Romantics but he was, as one writer put it, 'the first lyric poet of music'. The ideas came tumbling out like ...