If you would have told Austrian composer Franz Schubert that an ensemble of musicians, led by American expatriate Bryan Benner, would be reimagining his classical scores nearly 200 years later, he ...

When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit ...

Premieres Friday, September 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app Franz Schubert composed 1,500 works, but his genius ...

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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. When he ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...

A BBC documentary a few years ago draws a line from the Adele song in my daughter’s music collection back to songs by Franz Schubert. Host Howard Goodall points out that both of these songs are about ...

Franz Schubert composed one of the most famous and beautiful pieces of chamber music ever written, the Trout Quintet, in 1819 for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. That's an unusual ...

The Sage Chamber Music Society presents Schubertiade: Celebrating the Music of Franz Schubert on Graf fortepiano Sunday, November 7, at 3 p.m. in Smith College’s Sweeney Concert Hall. After postponing ...

For years, CDs have arrived each week by the dozen, their styles, careers, and time periods all competing for my attention. I would get to them all eventually, I told myself — when I was idled or sick ...