“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.
(Death and the Maiden)
Studien-Edition
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 183774
Edited from the sources and provided with commentary and fingering
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 261159
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 391302
Universal Querflöten Edition
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 113433
for: Piano
Item no.: 401522
D 593
for: Piano
Item no.: 401468
for Clarinet (B flat/C), Bassoon, Horn (F/C), 2 Violins, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Set of parts
Item no.: 617096
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205803
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796410
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444375
Original Key for High Voice
for: Voice (high), clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582857
"The Great"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 175113
"Leise flehen meine Lieder"
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 558228
aus "Die schöne Müllerin"
Introduktion und Variationen für Klavier und Flöte
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 143665
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 637905
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116945
Arrangement for violin and piano by Anton Diabelli
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 666119
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 401521
Signature Series (ABRSM)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1163309
nach den ersten Drucken revidiert
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 359643
nach den ersten Drucken revidiert
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 181578
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401115
"Rosamunde"
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 657859
"Unvollendete"
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391618
'cello by Birtel, Band 40
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 745599
Ausgabe für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 383214
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 116950
Studien-Edition
for: Clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617097
Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition – New Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663039
nach den ersten Drucken revidiert
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 359842
Series 1: 'Ave Maria', 'Erlkönig' and Ten Other Great Songs
Reproduced from the 1838 Diabelli Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 229482
for: Piano
Item no.: 401103
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401122
Winter Journey
for: Voice (high), guitar
Music score, single part
Item no.: 694789
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674549
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 555141
Auswahl. Nach Autografen und Erstdrucken (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125057
for: Piano
Item no.: 401113
Grüne Reihe Edition Peters
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen von Klaus Burmeister op. posth. 137
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 494137
Tanzzyklen, die zu Schuberts Lebzeiten oder bald nachher erschienen sind.
Band 1 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125017
"Arpeggione"
Arrangement
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140235
Trout Quintet
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401446
Version for Viola
with marked and unmarked string parts
Free Download of Arpeggione part
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174171
No. 45
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 322966
Urtext
for: Piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401467
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score, CD
Item no.: 498471
Cambridge Music Handbooks
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 980147
Classic Clarinet Series
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 336036
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