“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: Violin
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204398
for: Latin percussion
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204357
for: Piano
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 612317
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 796712
for: Low Brass
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204350
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 182153
for: Klarinettenchor
Score, Parts
Item no.: 491050
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 805401
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 130796
for: Piano
Item no.: 305412
for: Flexible woodwind ensemble (5 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995143
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 764499
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 839516
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 189083
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 685262
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 269150
for: Accordion [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 656659
for: Cello
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 465406
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 166397
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 316867
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316380
Complemented by the String Quartet in C major D 46D 72
for: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (winds octet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 151297
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 935221
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 860784
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 890194
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 921174
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 901204
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 661297
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 207951
for: Viola, guitar
Item no.: 283236
for: Symphonic orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 663566
for: Voice (high),horn [cello], piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 613327
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 677805
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 768184
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 638437
"Rosamunde"
Overture
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 345198
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116936
for: Violine, Viola, Cello
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 116927
for: Voice, piano
Gesamtausgabe, Singpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116926
for: 8-9 Instrumente
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116917
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 335203
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 122890
for: Gesang, (Instrument)
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 879615
for: Instrument
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 878641
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 872061
Military March
EMB Leggiero
for: Youth string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 144372
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 245542
for: Youth string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 431707