Schubert had begun writing songs from a very early age, and when he was 17, he started to make real headway. He composed Gretchen at Her Spinning Wheel, and in that one stroke, created the German ...

Franz Schubert was a prolific composer whose music was an important bridge between the Classical and Romantic eras. Franz Schubert Born: 31 January 1797, Vienna Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born ...

Schubert's most famous piece of music, "Ave Maria," entered the world as "Ellens Gesang III," the sixth song in Liederzyklus vom Fraülein vom See (Song cycle from The Lady of the Lake) in which ...

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 songs ...

In his short lifetime, legendary Austrian composer Franz Schubert wrote over 600 Lieder, or poems scored to classical music. 200 years later, a young American musician living in Vienna reimagines ...

It’s one of classical music’s most haunting mysteries... Franz Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony has just two movements, yet it ...