Franz Schubert by Wilhelm August Rieder. Oil painting, 1875, after a watercolor painting by Rieder of 1825.

Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music. de Lied (plural de Lieder) (liːt plural) is a German word meaning literally " Song " among English speakers however the word A symphony is a Musical composition, often extended and usually for Orchestra. Franz Schubert 's Symphony No 8 in B minor, commonly known as the Unfinished (Unvollendete was started in 1822 but left with only A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto Chamber music is a form of Classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers He is particularly noted for his original melodic and harmonic writing.

While Schubert had a close circle of friends and associates who admired his work (including his teacher Antonio Salieri, and the prominent singer Johann Michael Vogl), wider appreciation of his music during his lifetime was limited at best. Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 1750 &ndash 7 May 1825) was an Italian Composer and conductor. Johann Michael Vogl ( August 10, 1768 in Steyr &ndash November 19, 1840 in Vienna) was an Austrian Baritone He was never able to secure adequate permanent employment, and for most of his career he relied on the support of friends and family. Interest in Schubert's work increased dramatically in the decades following his death.

Biography

Early life and education

Schubert was born in Vienna on January 31, 1797. Events 1504 - France cedes Naples to Aragon. 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes Year 1797 ( MDCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common His father, Franz Theodor Schubert, the son of a Moravian peasant, was a parish schoolmaster; his mother, Elizabeth Vietz was the daughter of a Silesian master locksmith, and had also been a housemaid for a Viennese family prior to her marriage. Moravia (Morava; Morawy Moravie Moravia is a historical region in central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, one of the former Czech lands. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches Etymology One theory claims that the name Silesia is derived from the Silingi, who were most likely a Vandalic (East Germanic people Of the Schuberts' sixteen children (one illegitimate child was born in 1783)^[1], eleven died in infancy; five survived. Their father Franz Theodor was a well-known teacher, and his school on the Himmelpfortgrund, a part of Vienna's 9th district, was well attended. Alsergrund is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria, located just north of the first central district Innere Stadt. He was not a famous musician, but he taught his son what he could of music.

The house in which Schubert was born, today Nussdorfer Strasse 54, in the 9th district of Vienna.

At the age of five, Schubert began receiving regular instruction from his father and a year later was enrolled at the Himmelpfortgrund school. His formal musical education also began around the same time. His father continued to teach him the basics of the violin. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member At seven, Schubert was placed under the instruction of Michael Holzer. Holzer's lessons seem to have mainly consisted of conversations and expressions of admiration^[2] and the boy gained more from his acquaintance with a friendly joiner's apprentice who used to take him to a neighboring pianoforte warehouse where he was given the opportunity to practice on better instruments. A Joiner differs from a Carpenter in that he cuts and fits joints in wood that do not use nails usually as a furniture maker The unsatisfactory nature of Schubert's early training was even more pronounced during his time given that composers could expect little chance of success unless they were also able to appeal to the public as performers. To this end, Schubert's meager musical education was never entirely sufficient.

In October 1808, he was received as a pupil at the Stadtkonvikt (Imperial religious boarding school) through a choir scholarship. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 1808 ( MDCCCVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year It was at the Stadtkonvikt that Schubert was introduced to the overtures and symphonies of Mozart. His exposure to these pieces as well as various lighter compositions combined with his occasional visits to the opera set the foundation for his greater musical knowledge. Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto

Meanwhile, his genius was already beginning to show itself in his compositions. Antonio Salieri, a leading composer of the period, became aware of the talented young man and decided to train him in musical composition and music theory. Antonio Salieri ( 18 August 1750 &ndash 7 May 1825) was an Italian Composer and conductor. Schubert's early essay in chamber music is noticeable, since we learn that at the time a regular quartet-party was established at his home "on Sundays and holidays," in which his two brothers played the violin, his father the cello and Franz himself the viola. The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, It was the first germ of that amateur orchestra for which, in later years, many of his compositions were written. During the remainder of his stay at the Stadtkonvikt he wrote a good deal more chamber music, several songs, some miscellaneous pieces for the pianoforte and, among his more ambitious efforts, a Kyrie (D. Kýrie is from the Greek word κύριε (kyrie the Vocative case of κύριος (kyrios meaning O Lord. 31) and Salve Regina (D. For the university see Salve Regina University. The " Salve Regina " is one of four Marian antiphons sung at different 27), an octet for wind instruments (D. In Music, an octet is a Musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices or a musical composition written for such an ensemble 72/72a) - said to commemorate the death of his mother, which took place in 1812 - a cantata (D. 110), words and music, for his father's name-day in 1813, and the closing work of his school-life, his first symphony (D. 82).

Teacher at his father's school

At the end of 1813 he left the Stadtkonvikt, and entered his father's school as teacher of the lowest class. In the meantime, his father remarried, this time to Anna Kleyenboeck, the daughter of a silk dealer from the suburb Gumpendorf. Mariahilf is the sixth district of Vienna, with a population of 27867 (2001 within an area of 1 For over two years the young man endured the drudgery of the work, which he performed with very indifferent success. There were, however, other interests to compensate. He received private lessons in composition from Salieri, who did more for Schubert’s training than any of his other teachers.

Last years and masterworks

Schubert in 1825

In 1823 appeared Schubert's first song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin (D. Year 1825 ( MDCCCXXV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Song cycles in classical music The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven 's An die ferne Geliebte (1816 Die schöne Müllerin (op 25 D 795 is a Song cycle by Franz Schubert on poems by Wilhelm Müller. 795), after poems by Wilhelm Müller. Wilhelm Müller ( October 7, 1794 - September 30, 1827) German lyric Poet, was born at Dessau, the son This work, together with the later cycle "Winterreise" (D. Winterreise ( Winter Journey) is a cycle of 24 Poems by Wilhelm Müller, best known as the Song cycle set for male voice and piano by 911; also written to texts of Müller) is widely considered one of the pinnacles of Lieder. de Lied (plural de Lieder) (liːt plural) is a German word meaning literally " Song " among English speakers however the word The song Du bist die Ruh ("You are stillness/peace") D. 776 was also composed during this year.

In the spring of 1824 he wrote the Octet in F (D. The Octet in F major, D 803 was composed by Franz Schubert in March 1824. 803), "A Sketch for a Grand Symphony"; and in the summer went back to Želiezovce, when he became attracted by Hungarian idiom, and wrote the Divertissement a l'Hongroise (D. Želiezovce (Zelis (rare Zseliz is a Town in Slovakia in the Nitra Region, in the Levice District, near the Hron river Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic 818) and the String Quartet in A minor (D. The String Quartet No 13 in a minor (the Rosamunde Quartet) D 804). It has been said that he held a hopeless passion for his pupil Countess Karoline Eszterházy; if this is the case, the details are unknown to historians.

Despite his preoccupation with the stage and later with his official duties, he found time during these years for a good deal of miscellaneous composition. The Mass in A flat (D. 678) was completed and the "Unfinished Symphony" (Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759) begun in 1822. Franz Schubert 's Symphony No 8 in B minor, commonly known as the Unfinished (Unvollendete was started in 1822 but left with only The question of why the symphony was "unfinished" has been debated endlessly and is still unresolved. To 1824, beside the works mentioned above, belong the variations for flute and piano on Trockne Blumen, from the cycle Die schöne Müllerin. Die schöne Müllerin (op 25 D 795 is a Song cycle by Franz Schubert on poems by Wilhelm Müller. There is also a sonata for piano and arpeggione (D. The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano, D 821 was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. 821). This music is nowadays usually played by either cello or viola and piano, although a number of other arrangements have been made. The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family,

The mishaps of the recent years were compensated by the prosperity and happiness of 1825. Publication had been moving more rapidly; the stress of poverty was for a time lightened; in the summer there was a pleasant holiday in Upper Austria, where Schubert was welcomed with enthusiasm. It was during this tour that he produced his "Songs from Sir Walter Scott". This cycle contains his famous and beloved Ellens dritter Gesang (D. Ellens dritter Gesang ( Ellens Gesang III, D839 Op 52 no 6 1825 Ellen's third song in English, composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 839). This is today more popularly, though mistakenly, referred to as "Schubert's Ave Maria"; while he had set it to Adam Storck's German translation of Scott's hymn from The Lady of the Lake that happens to open with the greeting Ave Maria and also has it for its refrain, subsequently the entire Scott/Storck text in Schubert's song have occasionally been substituted with the complete Latin text of the traditional Ave Maria prayer. Sir Walter Scott 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 &ndash 21 September 1832 was a prolific Scottish Historical novelist and Poet popular throughout The Hail Mary or Ave Maria ( Latin) is a traditional Christian Prayer asking for the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, the During this time he also wrote the Piano Sonata in A minor (D. 845, Op. 42) and the Symphony No. 9 (in C major, D. The Symphony No 9 in C major D 944, known as the Great, is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. 944), which is believed to have been completed the following year, in 1826.

From 1826 to 1828 Schubert resided continuously in Vienna, except for a brief visit to Graz in 1827. Graz (etymologically from Slovene: Gradec IPA /gradeʦ/ "little castle" with a population of around 290000 as of 2008 (of which 252852 have principal Year 1827 ( MDCCCXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The history of his life during these three years is little more than a record of his compositions. There were few events worth mention during this period. In 1826, he dedicated a symphony to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde and received an honorarium in return. The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (in English: Society of Music Friends) was founded in 1812 by Joseph von Sonnleithner, general secretary of the In the spring of 1828 he gave, for the first and only time in his career, a public concert of his own works which was very well received. But the compositions themselves are a sufficient biography. The String Quartet in D minor (D.810), with the variations on Death and the Maiden, was written during the winter of 1825-1826, and first played on January 25, 1826. The String Quartet in D minor was written in 1824 by Franz Schubert, just after the composer became aware of his ruined health Der Tod und das Mädchen (D531 February 1817, published by Cappi und Diabelli in Vienna in November 1821 as Op 7 No 3 Death and the Maiden in English Events 41 - After a night of negotiation Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate For the game see 1826 (board game. Year 1826 ( MDCCCXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display Later in the year came the String Quartet in G major, the "Rondeau brilliant" for piano and violin (D. 895, Op. 70), and the Piano Sonata in G (D. 894, Op. 78) (first published under the title "Fantasia in G"). To these should be added the three Shakespearian songs, of which "Hark! Hark! the Lark" (D. 889) and "Who is Sylvia?" (D. 891) were allegedly written on the same day, the former at a tavern where he broke his afternoon's walk, the latter on his return to his lodging in the evening.

In 1827 Schubert wrote the song cycle Winterreise (D. Winterreise ( Winter Journey) is a cycle of 24 Poems by Wilhelm Müller, best known as the Song cycle set for male voice and piano by 911), a colossal peak of the art of art-song (remarkable is already the way it was presented at the Schubertiades), the Fantasia for piano and violin in C (D. 934), and the two piano trios (B flat, D. 898; and E flat, D. 929): in 1828 the Song of Miriam, the Mass in E-flat (D. 950), the Tantum Ergo (D. 962) in the same key, the String Quintet in C (D. The String Quintet in C major, D 956 op posth 163 is a piece of Chamber music written by Franz Schubert. 956), the second Benedictus to the Mass in C, the last three piano sonatas, and the collection of songs published posthumously under the fanciful name of Schwanengesang ("Swan-song", D. Schwanengesang (" Swan song " is the title of a posthumous collection of songs by Franz Schubert. 957), which whilst not a true song cycle, retains a unity of style amongst the individual songs, touching unwonted depths of tragedy and the morbidly supernatural. Six of these are to words by Heinrich Heine, whose Buch der Lieder appeared in the autumn. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine ( December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a Journalist, Essayist and one of the The Symphony No. 9 (D. The Symphony No 9 in C major D 944, known as the Great, is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. 944) is dated 1828, and many modern Schubert scholars (including Brian Newbould) believe that this symphony, written in 1825-6, was revised for performance in 1828 (a fairly unusual practice for Schubert, for whom publication, let alone performance, was rarely contemplated for many of his larger-scale works during his lifetime). In the last weeks of his life he began to sketch three movements for a new Symphony in D (D. 936A).

The works of his last two years reveal a composer increasingly meditating on the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships, and with a deeper sense of spiritual awareness and conception of the 'beyond', reaching extraordinary depths in several chillingly dark songs of this period, especially in the larger cycles, (the song Der Doppelgaenger reaching an extraordinary climax, conveying madness at the realization of rejection and imminent death, and yet able to touch repose and communion with the infinite in the almost timeless ebb and flow of the String Quintet). Schubert expressed the wish, were he to survive his final illness, to further develop his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint.

Death

In the midst of this creative activity, his health deteriorated. He had had syphilis since 1822. Syphilis is a Sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal Bacterium Treponema pallidum pallidum. The final illness may have been typhoid fever, though other causes have been proposed; some of his final symptoms match those of mercury poisoning (mercury was a common treatment for syphilis in the early 19th century). At any rate, insufficient evidence remains to make a definitive diagnosis. His solace in his final illness was reading, and he had become a passionate fan of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15 1789 &ndash September 14 1851 was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century He died aged 31 on Wednesday November 19, 1828^[3] at the apartment of his brother Ferdinand in Vienna. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap At 3 p. m. "someone observed that he had ceased to breathe. " By his own request, he was buried next to Beethoven, whom he had adored all his life, in the village cemetery of Währing. In 1888, both Schubert's and Beethoven's graves were moved to the Zentralfriedhof, where they can now be found next to those of Johann Strauss II and Johannes Brahms. Johann Strauss II (also known as Johann Strauss the Younger, Johann Strauss Jr Johannes Brahms ( pronounced ˈbʁaːms (May 7 1833 &ndash April 3 1897 was a German Composer

In 1872, a memorial to Franz Schubert was erected in Vienna's Stadtpark.

Music

Style

Schubert composed music for a wide range of ensembles and in various genres including opera, liturgical music, chamber and solo piano music. Liturgical music originated as a part of Religious Ceremony, and includes a number of traditions both ancient and modern

While he was clearly influenced by the Classical sonata forms of Mozart and Beethoven (his early works, among them notably the 5th Symphony, are particularly Mozartean), his formal structures and his developments tend to give the impression more of melodic development than of harmonic drama. Sonata form is a Musical form that has been used widely since the early Classical period. This combination of Classical form and long-breathed Romantic melody sometimes lends them a discursive style: his 9th Symphony was described by Robert Schumann as running to "heavenly lengths". Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8 1810 &ndash July 29 1856 was a German Composer, Aesthete and influential Music critic [1] His harmonic innovations include movements in which the first section ends in the key of the subdominant rather than the dominant (as in the last movement of the Trout Quintet). In Music, the subdominant is the technical name for the fourth tonal degree of the Diatonic scale. The Trout Quintet is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major by Franz Schubert. Schubert's practice here was a forerunner of the common Romantic technique of relaxing, rather than raising, tension in the middle of a movement, with final resolution postponed to the very end.

It was in the genre of the Lied, however, that Schubert made his most indelible mark. de Lied (plural de Lieder) (liːt plural) is a German word meaning literally " Song " among English speakers however the word Plantinga remarks, "In his more than six hundred lieder he explored and expanded the potentialities of the genre as no composer before him. " ^[4] Prior to Schubert's influence, lieder tended toward a strophic, syllabic treatment of text, evoking the folksong qualities burgeoned by the stirrings of Romantic nationalism^[5]. Romantic nationalism (also National Romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of Nationalism in which the state derives Among Schubert's treatments of the poetry of Goethe, his settings of Gretchen am Spinnrade and Der Erlkönig are particularly striking for their dramatic content, forward-looking uses of harmony, and their use of eloquent pictorial keyboard figurations, such as the depiction of the spinning wheel and treadle in the piano in Gretchen and the furious and ceaseless gallop the right hand in Erlkönig. ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfgaŋ fɔn ˈgøːtə (in English generally ˈgɝːtə 28 August 1749 22 March 1832 was a German writer Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning wheel is a selection of text from Goethe 's Faust. Der Erlkönig (often called just Erlkönig) is a Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Also of particular note are his two song cycles on the poems of Wilhelm Müller--Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise--and the collection Schwanengesang, all of which helped to establish the genre and its potential for musical, poetic, and dramatic narrative. Song cycles in classical music The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven 's An die ferne Geliebte (1816 Wilhelm Müller ( October 7, 1794 - September 30, 1827) German lyric Poet, was born at Dessau, the son Die schöne Müllerin (op 25 D 795 is a Song cycle by Franz Schubert on poems by Wilhelm Müller. Winterreise ( Winter Journey) is a cycle of 24 Poems by Wilhelm Müller, best known as the Song cycle set for male voice and piano by Schwanengesang (" Swan song " is the title of a posthumous collection of songs by Franz Schubert. In turn, Schubert's work in Lieder fostered interest in shorter and more lyrical instrumental works. de Lied (plural de Lieder) (liːt plural) is a German word meaning literally " Song " among English speakers however the word

Schubert's compositional style progressed rapidly throughout his short life. The loss of potential masterpieces caused by his early death at 31 was perhaps best expressed in the epitaph on his tombstone written by the poet Franz Grillparzer, "Here music has buried a treasure, but even fairer hopes. Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer ( January 15, 1791 – January 21, 1872) an Austrian dramatic Poet, was born in "

Posthumous history of Schubert's music

Some of his smaller pieces were printed shortly after his death, but the more valuable seem to have been regarded by the publishers as so much waste paper. In 1838 Robert Schumann, on a visit to Vienna, found the dusty manuscript of the C major symphony (the "Great", D. Year 1838 ( MDCCCXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8 1810 &ndash July 29 1856 was a German Composer, Aesthete and influential Music critic The Symphony No 9 in C major D 944, known as the Great, is the final symphony completed by Franz Schubert. 944) and took it back to Leipzig, where it was performed by Felix Mendelssohn and celebrated in the Neue Zeitschrift. This sort of fix restores section edit linkpoints to where they belong Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and generally known as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3 1809 &ndash November 4 1847 was a German Composer Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (English - New Journal of Music was a music magazine published in Leipzig, founded by Robert Schumann. There continues to be some controversy over the numbering of this symphony, with German-speaking scholars numbering it as symphony No. 7, the revised Deutsch catalogue (the standard catalogue of Schubert's works, compiled by Otto Erich Deutsch) listing it as No. Otto Erich Deutsch ( September 5, 1883 &ndash November 23, 1967) was an Austrian Musicologist. 8, and English-speaking scholars listing it as No. 9.

Fifty of his songs were transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt, who declared Schubert to be "the most poetic musician who has ever lived".

The most important step towards the recovery of the neglected works was the journey to Vienna which Sir George Grove (of "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" fame) and Sir Arthur Sullivan made in the autumn of 1867. Sir George Grove ( August 13, 1820 &ndash May 28, 1900) was an English writer on Music, immortalised in the title of The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an Encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 &ndash 22 November 1900 was an English composer of Irish and Italian descent best known for his operatic Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The travellers rescued from oblivion seven symphonies, the Rosamunde incidental music, some of the Masses and operas, some of the chamber works, and a vast quantity of miscellaneous pieces and songs. This led to more widespread public interest in Schubert's work.

Another controversy, which originated with Grove and Sullivan and continued for many years, surrounded the "lost" symphony. Immediately before Schubert's death, his friend Eduard von Bauernfeld recorded the existence of an additional symphony, dated 1828 (although this does not necessarily indicate the year of composition) named the "Letzte" or "Last" symphony. Eduard von Bauernfeld (January 13 1802 &ndash August 9 1890 Austrian Dramatist, was born at Vienna. The year 1828 ( MDCCCXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap It has been more or less accepted by musicologists that the "Last" symphony refers to a sketch in D major (D. 936A), identified by Ernst Hilmar in 1977, and which was realised by Brian Newbould as the Tenth Symphony. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Schubert 's Symphony No 10 in D major D 936A is an unfinished work that survives in a partly fragmentary piano sketch

Catalogue

Lists of works by Franz Schubert

• By Deutsch number: D 1 to 504 - D 505 to 998
• List of compositions by Franz Schubert — by musical genre
• Alphabetical list of Schubert's compositions (insofar as described in separate articles)

Media

Notes

Further reading

• Brian Newbould, Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press, 1999. ISBN 0-520-21957-0.
• Christopher H. Gibbs [ed. ], "The Cambridge Companion to Schubert", Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Christopher H. Gibbs, The Life Of Schubert, Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-59512-6
• Rita Steblin, "Schubert's Relationship with Women: An Historical Account," in: Schubert Studies, ed. Brian Newbould, Ashgate, 1998, pp. 159-182.
• Rita Steblin, "In Defense of Scholarship and Archival Research: Why Schubert's Brothers Were Allowed to Marry," Current Musicology 62 (1998): 7-17.

External links

• The Lied and Arts Song Texts Page
• Franz Schubert discography at MusicBrainz
• Franz Schubert at the Internet Broadway Database
• Franz Schubert at the Internet Movie Database
• Catalogue of Works by Franz Schubert
• Digital reproductions of score manuscripts and letters by Franz Schubert
• Franz Peter Schubert: Master of Song
• Notes on Franz Schubert by pianist Bart Berman
• The Schubert Institute (UK), detailed time-line, biography, work list and (flawed) family tree
• The Schubert Society of the USA
• The Franz Schubert Society of Victoria
• Franz-Schubert-Institut in Baden bei Wien
• Works by or about Franz Schubert in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Recordings and MIDI files

• Recordings of all works by Schubert for piano and violin
• Schubert cylinder recordings, from the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an Open content Music database The Internet Broadway Database ( IBDB) is an online Database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel Bart Berman (born in Rotterdam, December 29, 1938) is a Dutch - Israeli pianist and composer best known as an interpreter WorldCat is a Union catalog which itemizes the collections of more than 10000 libraries which participate in the OCLC global cooperative The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is a free digital collection maintained by the University of California Santa Barbara Libraries with streaming and downloadable The University of California Santa Barbara ( UCSB) is a selective research-oriented public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County California
• Selected Lieder (MIDI)
• Kunst der Fuge: Franz Schubert - MIDI files

Sheet music

• Schubert's Complete Piano Works Free Public Domain Scores in PDF
• www.kreusch-sheet-music.net Schubert's Piano Works
• http://www.schubertline.co.uk - about 250 of Schubert's Songs (Schubertline edition)
• Franz Schubert was listed in the International Music Score Library Project
• Franz Schubert free scores in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
• Free scores by Franz Schubert in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
• Works by Franz Schubert at Project Gutenberg
• Schubert's Sheet Music by Mutopia Project
• Lieder sheet music