Schubert’s Symphony #8 (Unfinished)
Whether or not Schubert regarded today’s version of his B-minor Symphony as complete is no longer a matter for speculation. We know that he planned to complete it, since piano sketches — a few measures …
Schubert Archive
Elly Ameling Sings Schubert’s “Heidenroeslein”
Even though Franz Schubert died at age 31, he left this world far richer than when he was born. He left us symphonies, chamber music, sonatas for piano and for other instruments, AND also 600 …
Horowitz Performs Schubert in Vienna
Franz Schubert composed the Impromptu No. 3, part of a set of 4 Impromptus, in the two-year period before he died in 1828. He had found tremendous success in the popularity of his short works, …
Grigory Sokolov Plays Schubert
Russian piasnist, Grigory Sokolov, began studying the piano at the age of five and at seven entered the Leningrad Conservatory to study with Leah Zelikhman, where he later studied with Moisey Khalfin. He gave his …
Kissin Plays Schubert’s “Gretchen am Spinnrade”
The song by Schubert titled “Gretchen am Spinnrade” communicates in the poem and in the music the longing that one one feels when your special person is not with you. Franz Schubert also composed other …