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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mr. Biss is a concert pianist. We live in an age of isolation. Its dangerous effects are becoming ever clearer: online radicalization, increasingly poisonous politics, evidence that more and more ...
The composer, who died at 31 in 1828, left behind six great works imbued with the spirit of departure. By Michael Henderson Every December, for 12 winters, I placed a red rose on the snow-capped grave ...
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 ...
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 ...
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