Several other well-known composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 91), Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 47) also died before they were 40 years old. However, these ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of Franz Schubert’s ‘Quintet D. 667’ by Trio Virtruvi, Hartmut Rohde and Nabil Shehata. The recording can be found on Trio Vitruvi’s second official album ...

Austrian composer Franz Peter Schubert portrait 1897 Franz Peter Schubert ( 31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828 ) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Original ...

16: Springtime in New York 1980–1985. The title was inspired by a pieceby Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) never completed before his death in 1828, “Symphony No. 8” in B minor ...

When he died in 1828 at age 31, Franz Schubert left behind an unfinished symphony that was discovered only years later. Musicians and the public were stunned by the beauty and profundity of this ...

1) Franz Schubert was born January 31, 1797 and died 31 years later ... 25) Schubert died on November 19, 1828 and was buried a few feet from Beethoven’s grave. 26) Schubert’s tombstone epitaph reads: ...

The music that Franz Schubert composed in the last ... in early 1827, and Schubert’s own (he had contracted syphilis about six years before he died in late 1828). That is the historical context for ...

Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Three piano pieces, D.459a (Adagio in C) Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Minuet in A major with Trio in F major, D.277a Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) Thirteen variations on a ...

The composer, who died at 31 in 1828, left behind six great works imbued with the spirit of departure. By Michael Henderson Every December, for 12 winters, I placed a red rose on the snow-capped grave ...

On Jan. 31, 1797, composer Franz Schubert was born in Vienna. In 1917 Germany announced a policy of unrestricted naval warfare in World War I. In 1919 future Baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson ...