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If you would have told Austrian composer Franz Schubert that an ensemble of musicians, led by American expatriate Bryan Benner, would be reimagining his classical scores nearly 200 years later, he ...

When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit ...

Premieres Friday, September 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app Franz Schubert composed 1,500 works, but his genius ...

The Sage Chamber Music Society presents Schubertiade: Celebrating the Music of Franz Schubert on Graf fortepiano Sunday, November 7, at 3 p.m. in Smith College’s Sweeney Concert Hall. After postponing ...

Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked on ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

Quote of the Day by Franz Schubert highlights the deep value of true friendship. He believed finding a trusted friend is ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...

The composer didn’t write his songs to be played at formal recitals by musicians in ties and tails. A new project aims to put the fun back into Franz I’m at a festival on the west coast of Denmark, in ...