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Franz Schubert's final ... The best performances of Schubert songs come from singers and pianists who are completely in synch, like tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Paul Lewis.
Franz Schubert wrote over 600 songs during his short life and ... and boasts an impressive fish list. Yes, fish list. Basically, a king throws a golden cup in the water and promises fame ...
It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them ... is the most-covered Schubert Lied. Franz Liszt recognized its appeal ...
Franz Schubert may not have been overly lauded during his all-too-brief lifetime, but he has been receiving plenty of posthumous kudos around the world for the last couple of centuries.
By Michael Henderson Every December, for 12 winters, I placed a red rose on the snow-capped grave of Franz Schubert. Vienna was then my city of choice, and nobody is more Viennese than Schubert. “You ...
In English, they get the rather grandiose title of ‘art song’, to distinguish them from popular vocal music and folksong. Franz Schubert would be known as the primary exponent of the lied ...