Franz Schubert Archive

There is something indescribable for me about this music: It is joyful, yet also sad. Happy, yet also tragic. And the second movement is like the sounds of angels. These sounds need to be made …

Composer Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet is a somber work, with all four of its movements set in a minor key. It takes its name from the composer’s lied Der Tod und …

The Fantasia in F-Minor for piano four-hands (two players at one piano), is one of Schubert’s most important works for more than one pianist and one of his most important piano works altogether. He composed …

The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. …

Austrian composer Franz Schubert composed the Trout Quintet, in 1819 for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. That’s an unusual ensemble, but Schubert evidently wrote it for a group of musicians who had gathered …