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 ...

Donald Macleod explores the work of Franz Schubert, focusing on five distinct phases in the composer’s life. And afterlife. We start in 1815, the year in which Schubert turned 18 and was a reluctant ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For nearly two centuries, the life and character of Franz Schubert, one of the most brilliant, accomplished and popular of the European classical composers, have been variously ...

A wealth of biographical detail positions McCully’s biography of Viennese Romantic composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). Adopting the perspective of Schubert’s friends, to whom he dedicated his final ...

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 ...

Every morning at 6:00 a.m., he commenced writing music, and he continued until 1:00 p.m. before taking a break. Some say he composed more than 65 bars of music each day. Before he died a tragic death ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Schubert. Monday: Schubert’s circle It’s a case of wine, men and song, as we spend some quality time with the composer’s friends. From his days at ...

Part of the “Great Performances” series “Now Hear This,” which focuses each of its episodes on a great composer, “The Schubert Generation” features a number of phenomenally talented young performers ...

Franz Schubert’s short life spanned a crucial period in music history as the elegant, classical stylings of Mozart and Haydn were giving way to the drama and passion of the romantic era. Schubert came ...