“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: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 916221
for: SSAATTBB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 923842
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 893369
for: Voice (medium)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1153271
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 921471
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 853315
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 821619
for: Violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 851159
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308429
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 821030
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 259609
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912355
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1717432
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1615916
for: Solo S + SSA
Choir score
Item no.: 905282
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1617391
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 372723
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 342809
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 266296
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768346
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 372726
URTEXT Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Score
Item no.: 562725
for: String orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340242
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290080
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290079
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 184213
Entr'actes D 797 Nos. 1, 3a and 5 [from Op. 26]
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 367218
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307914
for: String orchestra; piano ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616814
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 465301
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 177247
for: Saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 149043
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 139587
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 375165
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 203468
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder Frauenchor (S/SA) und Orgel oder Orchester oder Blasorchester
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 428757
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 126827
D 488
Einzelstimme Vl. 1
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238067
D 27
Einzelstimme Vc. (Kb.)
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238041
D 962
Einzelstimme Vc.
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238019
Offertorium
Schubert-Archiv
Stuttgarter Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237938
Graduale in C
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237903
D 950
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237145
D 950
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Horn 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237139
D 950
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Bassoon 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237136
aus: Messe in F (2. Fassung)
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237070
Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
bezeichnete Stimme
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 668510
for: 3 recorders (SSA), piano
Single part descant recorder 2
Item no.: 784917