Unlike some other great composers -- Beethoven, Brahms -- Schubert died young, at age 31 ... of Germany's most beautiful and brilliant poems to music, thereby raising the German song or lied to an ...

Schubert's music was actually written to the words of The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott but translated into German and called Ellens Third song. It was written as part of a set of Scott songs ...

delivers an intriguing look at Austrian and German composers for this weekend’s performances. From Franz Schubert to lesser-known composers like Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Paul Hindemith and Max ...

There are no barriers in Alexander Schubert’s music. The German composer and professor aims to bring technology and music together, creating immersive experiences that challenge our perceptions of the ...

The German singer has gained ... The classical composer requires a fundamentally different, more conservative, mindset. “With Schubert’s music, I don’t dare do too many crazy interpretations.

“As eminent operatic composers dispersed or died, Schubert was caught in the shift of mood,” Byrne Bodley observes. “For a while there came over German opera a sultry stillness, which could ...

Austrian-German production company Schubert is moving forward with a slate of films by distinctive auteur filmmakers, among them the historical drama “Rose,” by Austrian writer-director Markus ...

Kaufmann’s soldier spends the last hour of his life revisiting his memories in a cascade of Schubert’s songs, stitched together with ominous new music by the German composer Mathis Nitschke.

Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch perform Schubert’s song cycle Schwanengesang ... his native Italy heard through the ears of German composers (Mendelssohn and Strauss), plus a Philip Glass ...

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 ...