The Sage Chamber Music Society presents Schubertiade: Celebrating the Music of Franz Schubert on Graf fortepiano Sunday, November 7, at 3 p.m. in Smith College’s Sweeney Concert Hall. After postponing ...

Franz Schubert's final, painful days in November 1828 included bouts of delirium, requests for novels by James Fennimore Cooper, ceaseless singing and snatches of lucidity, when he actually worked on ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert wrote over 600 songs during his short life and, naturally, some have captured the attention of singers, pianists and listeners more than others over the decades. His top-shelf songs ...

Thomas Meglioranza first heard Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle of 24 songs, when he was 18. “That got me hooked on singing classical music,” said award-winning baritone Meglioranza, who earned a ...

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If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Listen 5:24 Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna wrote a song that ...

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Alice Sara Ott’s account of John Field Nocturnes, a tribute to Glenn Gould and a program of songs by Schubert and Kurtag are among the highlights. Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his farewell on disc ...