Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...
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 ...
Sophia Schubert didn’t waste much time telling reporters how she felt. “You know, I want to cry,” she said just moments after missing out on a career-changing major victory Sunday at the Amundi Evian ...
Fitting Schubert's heavenly string ­quintet and the final two quartets, all substantial works, on to just two discs is quite a feat, but the price to be paid is that the G major quartet is awkwardly ...
Franz Schubert composed his Symphony No.8 in 1822, but never completed it, making only two movements along with an outline of a third. Nearly 200 years later, Huawei, Emmy-awarding composer Lucas ...
The composer Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828, aged only 31. This article, by Roger Scruton, was first published by The Telegraph in 2012. Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, ...
Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s fascinating new life of the great composer has a shrewd eye for the relation between man and music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...
Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...