Franz Schubert Archive

My post today features three amazing performers: Soprano Barbara Bonney was trained in Salzburg, Austria. She actually began as a Cello student, and switched to voice later. After an international career singing Opera, Oratorios, and …

The Arpeggione Sonata was written in 1824, soon after Schubert’s Schöne Müllerin song cycle and shortly before the Great C major Symphony of 1825-28 and the C major String Quintet of 1827, perhaps his finest instrumental …

Schubert began his Symphony No. 9 in the summer of 1825 and continued to work on it over the next two years. In 1828 Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde (Society of Friends of Music) agreed to …

Dutch brothers Lucas (26) and Arthur Jussen (23) have been part of the international concert world for years and are praised by both press and audiences. The Jussen brothers have performed with orchestras such as The …

We are introducing this quartet today because they recently won First Prize at the Nielsen Chamber Music competition. Member names are as follows: Danfeng Shen (violin) and Antonia Rankensberger (violin); Xiang Lyu (viola), and cellist …