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 ...

It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them in instrumental arrangements. On one hand, you've got to admire their love of ...

The February 2015 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features a composer whose short stature and portly girth earned him the affectionate nickname of ...

On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When ...

Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born into a musical family, he was a gifted pianist, organist, violinist and boy soprano. His foray into composition began with lessons from Antonio Salieri, with whom ...

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 ...

His music occupied four of the top five places in the Classic 100: Chamber Music survey, but that was only one field of music in which Franz Schubert excelled. Some call him the greatest songwriter of ...

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 ...

Wineries up and down the Napa Valley will open for twilight chamber music concerts, all as part of Music in the Vineyards’ 21st annual festival, on Friday, July 31, through Aug. 23. The 2015 season ...