The life and character of composer Franz Schubert have been variously sketched in treacle and brimstone by biographers. But a critically acclaimed new biography by a University at Buffalo Schubert ...

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 ...

Emily Arnold McCully. McElderry, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8878-6 A wealth of biographical detail positions McCully’s biography of Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828).

This is a rare stage biography that’s smart enough to let an artist’s creations speak for themselves. Directed by Peter Medak, the production has its two performers to alternate in the spotlight.

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 ...

Franz Schubert composed 1,500 works, but his genius wasn’t recognized until after his tragic death at 31. The Vienna native never found success in his hometown, then the world’s musical capital.

Franz Schubert is considered by many as one of the leading composers of classical music. His life and works span from the Classical to the Romantic era, and as a prolific composer with a ...

His vision is grand, but his fragility is palpable. Schubert was 31 when he wrote these piano sonatas, in September 1828; two months later, he was dead.