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 ...

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 ...

Premieres Friday, September 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nowhearthis and the PBS Video app Franz Schubert composed 1,500 works, but his genius ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This prodigiously talented composer led a very full but all too brief life, dying at the age of just 31, in 1828. He is probably best known for the vast number of songs he wrote throughout his life - ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Franz Schubert. It’s hard to think of a composer more gregarious than Schubert, and further removed from the image of the reclusive genius, closeted away ...

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 ...