“Anyone who loves music can never be completely unhappy.” Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Come immerse yourself in the musical world of Schubert. Take a winter’s journey to the beautiful miller’s wife, listen to the wanderer’s fantasy, and serenade the Erlking! Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover more about Schubert today!
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, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 893206
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 117453
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 153911
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444375
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 159306
for: Flute, clarinet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 768401
(Urtext)
for: Violin, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 586176
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1777
for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1640
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 659083
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 143665
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2876
Arrangement for violin and piano by Anton Diabelli
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666119
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 637905
Fragment completed by Brian Newbould
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 148721
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 558228
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 382511
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116951
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116945
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 401521
für Tenor, Horn und Klavier (Fassung C-Dur)
for: Voice (tenor), horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 655770
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 382353
Edition Schott
for: 3 recorders (SAT), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 739240
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1779
for: für Violoncello und Klavier
Item no.: 154321
D. 600
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 5970
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391618
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 359643
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 181578
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 657859
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1163309
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 356160
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 637026
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401115
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 745599
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 604229
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 382666
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586171
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 383214
„Leise flehen meine Lieder“
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1209303
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731220
for: Piano
Sheet music, audio file
Item no.: 1632
Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition – New Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663039
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 306339
for: Piano
Item no.: 401103
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 359570
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 172289
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 116950