It's hard to say what the afterlife holds for musicians who choose to tamper with Schubert's songs by performing them in instrumental arrangements. On one hand, you've got to admire their love of ...

In German, they’re known as lieder. In French they’re mélodies. In English, they get the rather grandiose title of ‘art song’, to distinguish them from popular vocal music and folksong. Franz Schubert ...

Scottish-American soprano Mary Garden (1874-1967) portrayed Goethe's character Gretchen, known as Marguerite in Charles Gounod's opera Faust. Two hundred years ago today, a 17-year-old kid from Vienna ...

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Franz Schubert was the ...

Schwanengesang: a swan song, a last performance before retirement, a final deed before dying. The swan song originates from the Greek mythological belief that a swan sings a unique farewell once in ...

In Paris, “L’Autre Voyage” assembles the composer’s arias and art songs to create a jukebox show, perhaps the greatest opera Schubert never wrote. Franz Schubert in a drawing from around 1820. When he ...

The 19th-century pianist and composer Franz Schubert never ventured to Taos, but he likely would have felt right at home in ...

Hugo Shirley enjoys a great artist’s musings on the art of song and singing: ‘The personal nature of Gerhaher’s thoughts is ...

Nigl’s controlled, supple voice is aided by Pashchenko’s fierce accompaniment in a thoughtful selection The Austrian baritone Georg Nigl’s disc with pianist Olga Pashchenko mostly replicates a recital ...

Jordan Pyle presents her group's findings on the music of Franz Schubert during the College of Music Scholarship Celebration and Dinner on Oct. 5. The search for the “why” in a handful of Schubert ...