“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.
für das Pianoforte übertragen von Franz Liszt
zen-on piano library
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 658587
Ausgabe für Kontrabass u. Klavier
Edition Ludwig Streicher
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 158117
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Spielpartitur, Stimmensatz, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116946
Ich schleiche bang und still herum
for: Voice (soprano), clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 294939
60 ausgewählte Lieder für den Unterricht
Ausgabe für tiefe Stimme
for: Voice (low), piano
Songbook
Item no.: 227088
nach dem Gedicht "Der Berghirt" von W. Müller
for: Sopran (Tenor), Klarinette (Violine, Flöte, Violoncello) und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 760344
Lied, D. 547 (op. 88, Nr. 4)
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2169
"Wandererfantasie"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 620946
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 673912
for: Piano
Item no.: 401118
op. 53D 850
for: Piano
Item no.: 147687
(Death and the Maiden)
Studien-Edition
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 183774
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 132295
Edited from the sources and provided with commentary and fingering
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 261159
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 190462
Romantische Oper in 3 Akten
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 290891
"Unfinished"
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 758186
Erstausgabe nach den Klosterneuburger Stimmen
Urtext Stuttgarter Schubert-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 484580
mit Beiheft (Umschrift der Skizzen und Kommentar)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 383414
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
Study score
Item no.: 205424
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: Quartet
Book
Item no.: 164794
for: Piano
Item no.: 401522
D 593
for: Piano
Item no.: 401468
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 133923
Violinsonate
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Violin, piano
Spielpartitur, Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 116943
"Rosamunde", "Quartett-Satz" and fragment of the second movement
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 116952
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749296
Kreisler masterpieces for violin
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 747174
Ständchen
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750524
pour violon et piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 893206
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1025398
From the Breitkopf & Härtel Complete Works Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 153911
Bearbeitung für Streichorchester
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 133704
Die Schöne Müllerin - Die Winterreise - Schwanengesang
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 185408
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444375
"Grand Symphony in C major"
Urtext-Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 292335
Forellenquintett
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Item no.: 287024
Nr. 3 B-Dur
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356059
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796410
Mittlere Stimme (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551958
"The Great"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 175113
Original Key for High Voice
for: Voice (high), clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 582857
Klavierwerke in 5 Bänden: Band 3
for: Piano
Item no.: 360703
for: STR QUARTETT / PART ST 2 VL VA VC
Set of parts
Item no.: 359571
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205803