Franz Schubert Archive

Written over ten days in early summer 1826, the quartet wasn’t published until 1851, twenty-three years after Schubert’s death. The first movement’s energetic pulse informs the scherzo and (to a lesser degree) the finale, while …

The Sonta in A-major by Schubert was written in 1819. This work, with but three concise movements, is the most direct and economical of the Schubert sonatas; it surely is one of the most endearing. …

Franz Schubert’s song “Die Forelle” was composed about 1817 (with later revisions), with words by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. It is among the most familiar of Schubert’s approximately 600 songs, and it is best known …

Franz Schubert wrote the Symphony no. 8 in C major between 1825 and 1828. In order to distinguish this symphony from his symphony no. 6, written between 1817-18, no. 8 was referred to as the …

The first time I heard this music, I was taken aback at how sad it begins, a textbook example of “sehnsucht,” a German word that means yearning, longing, and/or melancholic desire. But the piece is …