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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 ...

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 ...

So who was Franz Schubert, really? Quite possibly not the cherubic genius that novels, films and even biographies have depicted him as being. Schubert, it seems, could be real trouble, especially when ...

Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born into a musical family, he was a gifted pianist, organist, violinist and boy soprano. His foray into composition began with lessons from Antonio Salieri, with whom ...

In 1815, Franz Schubert turned 18, and was itching for a change. He wasn't entirely happy, laboring as a teacher in his father's school. When he wasn't correcting the children's exercises, music ...

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 ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert was an awesome yet unflashy creative talent, largely ignored during his all-too-brief lifetime. What’s the story with Schubert? For years he was dismissed as something of a lightweight ...