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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Not long after Sa Chen won the third prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition this past June, she appeared at the 2005 Strings in the Mountains Festival for a recital. From that ...

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

Emily Arnold McCully. McElderry, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-5344-8878-6 A wealth of biographical detail positions McCully’s biography of Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828).