Schubert Archive

Time passes; and one my favorite singers has not only left the concert stage, but also moved away from the US. Barbara Bonney got her start singing German Lieder, but the power of Bonney’s soprano …

More than two hundred years ago, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that would change the way composers thought about songwriting. That young man was Franz Schubert, and his song “Gretchen am Spinnrade” …

In response to a commission from Count Troyer, who wanted a work closely modelled on Beethoven’s famous Septet op.20, Franz Schubert struck out on his own by delivering an Octet of his own, too. It …

There is about an hour of music in the full Rosamunde score by Franz Schubert, but most of it (aside from the Overture) is rarely heard. Ironically, however, the third of the Entracte which Schubert …

During the last weeks of his life, Schubert was able to complete works we now know to be among his greatest masterpieces. These include the String Quintet in C and the final three piano sonatas …