Franz Schubert (born January 31, 1797 ... whose diligence and thrift had allowed him to buy the schoolhouse where the family lived. His early lessons were with his father and brother but Schubert was ...

As a result he toed the family line, completed the mandatory year ... but a chance encounter with a music-loving art student, Franz von Schober, finally convinced Schubert to make his way in the world ...

‘Franz Schubert: His Letters and Music’ provides ... recites the composer’s private correspondences to his friends and family. If the concept sounds dry and anti-dramatic, it often is.

Schubert wrote more than 900 pieces during his short 31-year life and this family-friendly tribute to the composer will include famous pieces such as “Little Rose of the Field”, piano music ...

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 ...

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.

Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born into a musical family, he was a gifted pianist ... and most notably German lied. Franz Schubert is considered the last of the classical composers and one ...