He was happiest when he was writing music. Viennese-born Franz Schubert (1797-1828), was the son of a devout Catholic schoolteacher, Franz Theodor Schubert. When Schubert turned six ...

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Available for over a year This week of programmes about Franz Schubert focuses on five years through his short life ...

In this segment, concertmaster Frank Huang takes a solo turn with the ensemble to play the Rondo in A for Violin and Strings by Franz Schubert (1797-1828).

Is your place of origin, your Heimatort, important to you? Every Swiss citizen has a Heimatort, a place of origin, but many have never visited theirs. What’s your relationship with your ...

Franz Schubert (born January 31, 1797; died November 19, 1828) was not the first of the Romantics but he was, as one writer put it, 'the first lyric poet of music'. The ideas came tumbling out like ...

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Schubert's Fifth We're checking in with the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Zubin Mehta. The orchestra plays the Symphony No. 5 by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), from a concert they gave in March.

Winter and the moody, contemplative music of Franz Schubert go well together ... with fluid style and disarming natural grace. Schubert (1797-1828) wrote the 14 songs set to poems by three ...

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Available for over a year The influence that Schubert's friends and lifestyle had on his music. Read more More episodes Programme Website ...