“Anyone who loves music can never be completely unhappy.” Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
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Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. His friends called him “Schwammerl”, which means “little mushroom”, because of his small, chubby stature. His response however was simple, “take people as they are, not as they should be”, and that is exactly what the people did in 1821, when they organised the “Schubertiades” in his honour, a series of highly acclaimed salon concerts in Vienna, in which his works (especially his songs) were showcased, and in with Schubert himself played the piano. Even today, the term Schubertiade is widely used to describe a series of concerts or music festivals.
For a long time, Schubert lived in the shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he greatly admired, and in whose Vienna neighbourhood he lived for a short while, although at the time, the two composers never actually meet. Schubert said of his role model: “I think I could become something... but who can do anything after Beethoven?” They finally met in 1822, and a great mutual respect and admiration grew. When Beethoven passed in 1827, Schubert was one of the torchbearers at his funeral. Schubert himself died just a year later, much before his time, but through the abundance and wealth of his work, he and his music were quickly viewed along with Beethoven as immortal.
His composition “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, is often called the birth of Art Song. He set over 600 poems to music, including the famous song cycles Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller. Some of the most renowned recordings of Schubert’s songs were made in the 1960s by Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) and Hubert Giesen (piano).
But Schubert was much more than just the sum of his songs, he wrote numerous works for piano, many symphonies and masses, and he also tried his hand at opera. His symphonies are divided into six early works, and two late works that were not discovered until after his death, the Unfinished Symphony in B Minor and “The Great” Symphony in C Major, D944.
A few more of Schubert’s highlights are the Forellenquintett or Trout Quintet for Piano and String Quartet, the Schubert Impromptus, and the Moments Musicaux by Schubert for Piano.
for: Marimba and Piano
Book
Item no.: 1106912
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 872476
op. 90/3
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732058
von D 365 36 Originaltänze für Klavier
for: Violine (Flöte) und Gitarre
Ensemble score
Item no.: 761110
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 336036
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 223283
for young male chorus (with cambiata voices) and piano (simplified)
Emerging Voices
for: Male choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 682680
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 628032
More than the Score
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 674928
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638629
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638589
for: Choir unison and Piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 445832
Op. 51, Nr. 1
for: Bläserquintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1169884
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 662956
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 321391
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score, CD
Item no.: 498472
for: Flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 240993
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 297048
for: Unison Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1100968
for: Unison Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 964743
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 564543
for: Voice (high), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584018
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 486800
Nach Franz Schuberts Thema aus der Symphonie D 759 "Die Unvollendete"
HCCS - Helbling Choral Concert Series
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 123014
op. 90/3
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759081
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Music score
Item no.: 744962
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962079
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 878764
for: Male choir, guitar
Score
Item no.: 638585
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316381
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1194593
for: Accordion
Item no.: 1670359
Trascrizione per chitarra di Ganesh Del Vescovo
for: Guitar
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1164720
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1141813
Klavierauszug
for: BUEHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE SINGSPIELE
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1344060
Harfe 3
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE HARFE DREI HARFEN
Item no.: 1616632
für Sopran- oder Tenor-Solo, Männerchor und Orchester oder Klavier
for: Soloist, male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682395
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 997683
for: GEMEINDEGESANG BLM
Score, Parts
Item no.: 333677
CD Chorstimme Tenor 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 637943
(Wohin soll ich mich wenden)
for: Small wind band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 214035
D 948
Klavierauszug
Piano reduction
Item no.: 238073
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 223981
Shawnee Press
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121323
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 659884
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, 3 Single part
Item no.: 768256
D 678
Zweite Fassung mit der Fuge "Cum Sancto Spiritu" aus der ersten Fassung und einer Variante des "Osanna"
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237100