On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When ...
The music and musical backstories that New Haveners carry around from the last century are popping back up at the Shubert Theatre this spring, still vibrant and relevant to a changing world. Take ...
Soloist in the Nov. 30 concert is violinist Lyndon Johnston Taylor, former member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Redlands and Riverside symphonies.
Here, I’m going to skip to the final piece of the concert, which was Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9. Maestro Payare and the ...
What do you know about Franz Schubert? He wrote a symphony that he never bothered to finish. In German class, you listened to “Erlkönig” (“The Elf King”), the grim Goethe poem that Schubert set to ...
Schubert had important creative models just like any composer, Mozart and Beethoven chief among them. But he was also, to a strange and wonderful extent, his own invention. The opening program of this ...
Thursday night, Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s new music director, ended the second program of his current monthlong residency at Walt Disney Concert Hall with an extravagantly ...
When Austrian Composer Franz Peter Schubert died in 1828, it was at the house of his favorite brother, Ferdinand. Affectionate, sociable, improvident, Franz Peter found his life, liberty and pursuit ...
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