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 ...

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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 ...

In classical music, referring to a composer as "great" or "canonic" might be done with the best of intentions. But a kind of calcification takes place, freezing that composer into something abstract ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scottish-American soprano Mary Garden (1874-1967) portrayed Goethe's character Gretchen, known as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's opera Faust. Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna ...

The composer didn’t write his songs to be played at formal recitals by musicians in ties and tails. A new project aims to put the fun back into Franz I’m at a festival on the west coast of Denmark, in ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The tenor’s new recording of “Die Schöne Müllerin” encompasses that song cycle’s rustic allure and its dark complexities. By Ian Bostridge I first got ...

Sunwoo Yekwon has built his third Decca Records studio album, released on Thursday, around Franz Liszt. The national tour for ...