Sonu Nigam singing Ave Maria is the perfect prelude to Christmas. The calmness of the song and Nigam’s melodious voice has ...

This time, the masterpieces we share are by Franz Schubert, and include the first movement of Symphony No. 2 as well as ...

19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music.

Franz Schubert (born January 31, 1797; died November 19, 1828) was not the first of the Romantics but he was, as one writer put it, 'the first lyric poet of music'. The ideas came tumbling out like ...

At this time, the work of German poets, such as Goethe, were often set to music. Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms all composed lieder. Common poetic themes are love, longing and ...