Franz Schubert died at age 31. Yet he was able to leave us about 600 songs scored for voice and piano. These actually began as poems by several different poets. In one such case the …
Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 13, D. 664 was originally thought to have been composed in 1825. However, recent scholarship suggests that the sonata was composed some years earlier during the summer of 1819, which …
Many Schubert’s greatest works belong to his last year, which saw the creation of the “Great” C major Symphony, the String Quintet, D. 956, the piano trios D. 929 and D. 898, the Mass in …
Schubert’s original song, “Die Forelle,” was so popular that it was published several times within Schubert’s lifetime – once in 1820, again in 1825, and again in 1827, when it was assigned Opus 32. In …
When composer Franz Schubert died at age 31, he left us with several symphonies, a lot of chamber music, Sonatas for piano and for violin, Ballets, and more. We are also fortunate that he left …