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 ...

What do you know about Franz Schubert? He wrote a symphony that he never bothered to finish. In German class, you listened to “Erlkönig” (“The Elf King”), the grim Goethe poem that Schubert set to ...

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 ...

For the last eight and a half days of March, BBC Radio 3 is devoting its entire schedule to one of the greatest ever composers, Schubert, in the 215th anniversary year of his birth. When he died in ...

A small illustration of Schubert's genius: this week at the Wigmore Hall, the Artemis Quartet from Berlin (the first time I'd heard these players - they're astonishing, and worthy winners of a ...

Put yourself in the offices of the German wing of EMI records in 1985. A leading group, the Alban Berg Quartett – named after the famous modernist composer from their home country of Austria – has ...

Only two movements were completed, but Schubert's eighth symphony stands as one of the greatest, and strangest, of the genre, writes Tom Service When Schubert began writing his symphony in B minor in ...

Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert. What can we hear in his music? And what life lessons can it teach us? Tom Service delves into the dark side of Franz Schubert. What can we hear ...