The music of Austrian composer Franz Schubert and new works by composer Matthew Aucoin are coming together for a pair of Chatter shows. "Schubert + Aucoin" will feature Aucoin on piano with the vocals ...
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 ...
The Aiken Symphony will showcase the great talents of eight of its musicians from the strings, winds and brass sections in an ...
Beethoven and Schubert pushed the boundaries of the piano sonata, redefining the genre in ways that still resonate today. In turn, Paul Lewis—one of the most sought-after pianists of his ...
What do you know about Franz Schubert? He wrote a symphony that he never bothered to finish. In German class, you listened to “Erlkönig” (“The Elf King”), the grim Goethe poem that Schubert set to ...
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 ...
Jane Jones choses a featured work that unites two of Schubert's extraordinary talents. Schubert's String Quartet No.14 in D minor brings together two of the composer's extraordinary talents. Schubert ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The pianist is returning to one of the first composers she loved in a concert at Carnegie Hall. By Joshua Barone “I have hit old age,” Mitsuko Uchida, ...