In addition to their artistic complexity, Schubert's songs revel in the directly expressive power of melody. But you wouldn't have known it from Matthias Goerne's laboriously mannered account of "Die ...

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 ...

Schubert Songs, with a Twist: We'll hear two songs by Schubert souped up as solo piano transcriptions by Leopold Godowski (goh-DAWF-skee). We'll hear "Wandering" and "The Trout." It's a performance ...

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 ...

In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular event he’d just attended: In 1821, in Vienna, a friend of Franz Schubert wrote to his fiancée about a singular ...

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 ...

“Who owns the most beautiful voice in the world?” I asked in 2005. “It’s a ridiculous question, of course, but it may have an answer: Matthias Goerne, the German baritone.” My review continued, The ...

For Samuel Beckett, it was never words and music, no matter that they were personified in his 1962 radio play, “Words and Music.” It was ever words are music. Reputed to have been a fine musician ...

For a composer who didn’t live to see his 32nd birthday, Franz Schubert left an indelible mark on the world. “His professional career — the time he spent composing — was only 18 years,” marvels ...

Schubert had important creative models just like any composer, Mozart and Beethoven chief among them. But he was also, to a strange and wonderful extent, his own invention. The opening program of this ...

While he lived, the schoolmaster’s son Franz Schubert made no great splash in the world. Intimates called him Schwammerl, or Mushroom, supposedly because he was small and round. His occasional travels ...