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 ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

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 ...

Some think of Beethoven and Schubert as the musical equivalent of Thanksgiving dinner: solid, sober fare presented in the same, fixed manner every time. Gifted cooks and musicians know better. They ...