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Franz Schubert’s monolithic song cycle, Winterreise, or Winter Journey, contains 24 songs based on poems by Wilhelm Müller. A complete performance, meant for a solo singer and pianist ...
Franz Schubert wrote over 600 songs during his short life and, naturally, some have captured the attention of singers, pianists and listeners more than others over the decades. His top-shelf ...
Franz Schubert's final ... when he actually worked on music. Schubert had been seriously ill for about three years, but it's impossible to tell in the quantity and consistency of his compositions.
The Missouri Symphony will sound out themes of nature, cinema, patriotic pride and more next month as part of its Firefly ...
Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that would change the way composers thought about songwriting. That kid was Franz Schubert, and his song "Gretchen am ...
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.
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 ...
He never wrote a false note. 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 ...
They'll perform works by Franz Schubert and Sergei Rachmaninoff ... alongside some of the most recognizable names in ...
“People are curious about music theory, and this is a way to share our work with them.” The program, which will combine lecture and performances of George and Ira Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm,” two Franz ...
Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that would change the way composers thought about songwriting. That kid was Franz Schubert, and his song "Gretchen am ...