“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, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 431667
for: 3 Hörner
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995846
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 165347
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 252871
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647282
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1067185
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score
Item no.: 1009776
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 895665
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 213612
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 336817
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332669
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 885359
for: Orctesterfassung, Partitur
Score
Item no.: 1542609
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768347
for: Chor und Klavier
Choir score
Item no.: 1619253
for: String Ensemble, Piano
Score
Item no.: 262605
for: Harp or Harps
Score
Item no.: 1634297
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 852078
A text-critical edition “based on the sources” of this work which was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223573
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1644943
from Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern op. 26
"Hier auf den Fluten"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 695376
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428075
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921569
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 921121
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 263840
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 695409
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 342808
for: Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Pauke
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 870258
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 412333
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 851488
Entr'actes D 797 Nos. 1, 3a and 5 [from Op. 26]
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 367216
for: String orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340241
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 565461
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1158158
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1159563
for: für Orchester
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 1135355
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1668016
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1200972
for: Brass ensemble (9 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1632621
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1201014
Die Musikbibliothek der Inspirationen Heft 03/2021
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 780416
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
Single part Oboe
Item no.: 907637
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 644622
Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1109840
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132943
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1109762
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