The composer Franz Schubert ranks with the greatest of classical music composers – but it wasn’t always that way.

What do you know about Franz Schubert? He wrote a symphony that he never bothered to finish. In German class, you listened to “Erlkönig” (“The Elf King”), the grim Goethe poem that Schubert set to ...

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 1820. When he ...

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. When ...

Three music students from Saginaw Valley State University join the 85-voice Saginaw Choral Society next weekend for a "Sublimely Schubert" concert. Jeremiah Kraniak, Rayechel Neiman and Tami Snyder ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...

Let’s just say of the Sunday-afternoon third in his series that it always fascinated even when it felt odd or wrong, and that Barenboim put Schubert’s infinite variety to the test with an unusual ...

Le pianiste de 45 ans, né en Roumanie, mais élevé et vivant en Allemagne, Herbert Schuch, très peu connu en Amérique du Nord, se voyait confier mercredi par la salle Bourgie un concert peu ordinaire : ...

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Some think of Beethoven and Schubert as the musical equivalent of Thanksgiving dinner: solid, sober fare presented in the same, fixed manner every time. Gifted cooks and musicians know better. They ...