Franz Schubert (1797 -1828) was an Austrian composer who died when he was 31 years of age. He was a musical prodigy and played the violin,...

The last three piano sonatas of Franz Schubert were written during the last months of his life. Schubert had been suffering from the effec...

Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 may be the most famous unfinished work in the symphonic repertoire. The two completed movements of the s...

Schubert's String Quintet In C Major adds a second cello to a standard string quartet setting instead of a second viola as Mozart and Be...

The last months of Franz Schubert's life were times of great physical illness matched with great musical creativity. But for most of his...

Franz Schubert lived but 31 years, with most of those years being absorbed with composition. His total number of known works is over 1,500 a...

The word impromptu by definition implies something that is spontaneous, improvised. That definition does not really imply in music, for the...

The list of works that were published in Franz Schubert's lifetime ran to about 100 opus numbers, with most of them being lieder. it was...

Johann Goethe was a writer that inspired the entire 19th century world of art, specifically the Germanic-speaking world.  Franz Schubert fel...

Schubert had an exceptional drive to compose at every possible opportunity, almost an obsession for writing music. Schubert said himself tha...

The art of German song began in the Medieval era with the songs of the traveling troubadours of the 12th century and included folk songs a...