“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: Wind Ensemble and Timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 993045
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1005705
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1007027
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 977448
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 957530
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 337202
"Zögernd leise"
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) oder Männerchor (TTBB) mit Alt- oder Bariton-Solo und Klavier
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 748176
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 791825
for: Mixed Choir(satb/sab)
Item no.: 1707234
for: Clarinet/Saxophone/Trumpet/Euphonium/Baritone/Trombone/Bass Tuba
Item no.: 1705703
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 851708
for: Piano
Score
Item no.: 851725
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 867610
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 922916
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308430
for: Cello, piano
Score
Item no.: 863144
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 854085
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 854281
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 922060
Single part Oboe
Item no.: 907637
for: Medium Voice and Organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1115720
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915677
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1031891
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 857875
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 634558
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 287057
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 887970
for: Mixed choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 217925
for: Male choir, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307917
Faksimile-Ausgabe (Facsimile)
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 205573
for: Piano
Item no.: 282735
for: Male choir
Ensemble score
Item no.: 307123
for: Frauenchor: SSA, Klavier ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 879000
with a 2nd Benedictus D 961
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762746
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290082
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 282806
for: 3 GES (TTB) GIT
Score, Parts
Item no.: 394500
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621057
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 1617330
for: Soprano or Tenor Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 169733
for: Salon orchestra
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 225112
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 203472
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 427837
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 141378
"Rosamunde"
Overture
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 345195
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 342813
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237919