“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: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1356834
for: String orchestra
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 210813
for: Piano
Solostimme
Item no.: 580560
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1250184
for: Voice (alto), guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1250386
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251500
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1245082
for: Viola, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1245074
for: Double bass, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1245069
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1245068
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246105
for: Treble recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246104
for: Baritone saxophone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246092
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1247514
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261916
for: Tuba Quartet (2 Euphoniums & 2 Tubas)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1271998
for: Piano
Item no.: 209700
op. 51/1
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 727239
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Book
Item no.: 164824
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 130420
for: 3 saxophones (ATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689732
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187746
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1187725
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 113768
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 1179960
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 1181514
Edited from the First Edition
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 289202
for: 4 Singstimmen (SATB), Klavier
Score
Item no.: 213580
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 138475
for: Piano
Item no.: 284491
for: Piano
Item no.: 284487
for: Piano
Item no.: 284486
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 243006
for: Voice (soprano), clarinet, piano
Item no.: 285019
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1161809
(complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 377879
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 356155
Score
Item no.: 1336878
Score
Item no.: 1336851
for: Soli STB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), [Trompeten (2), Pauke], Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337193
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 388832
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 316867
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316380
for: Piano
Music book, 2 CDs
Item no.: 612317
for: Clarinet (a), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 268671
Piano reduction
Item no.: 137596
for: Viola d'amore, piano
Item no.: 268829
for: Guitar
Item no.: 149527