“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: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 866058
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 875130
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 957111
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 957232
"The Great"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 215258
for: Frauenchor (SSAA) oder Männerchor (TTBB) mit Alt- oder Bariton-Solo und Klavier
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 446145
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768351
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 695405
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1215463
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Book
Item no.: 885339
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 342810
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985738
for: Women's choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 586827
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Item no.: 261443
Lyric book
Item no.: 241323
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791960
for: Piano
Item no.: 1620544
for: Singstimme (A/ Bar), Frauenchor, Klavier
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 478186
Single part bass
Item no.: 906716
"Es tanzen Mond und Sterne"
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 751583
for: Voice, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (app)
Item no.: 1684617
for: gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Item no.: 186677
for: 2 Clarinets and Piano
Book
Item no.: 404548
"Rosamunde"
Overture
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1714149
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 165345
for: Mixed Choir(satb/sab)
Item no.: 1706672
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 330108
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 330109
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294086
A text-critical edition “based on the sources” of this work which was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223574
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 565462
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 188663
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 153454
for: Soli STB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), [Trompeten (2), Pauke], Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336991
for: Voice (soprano), strings
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1677846
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198394
Choir score
Item no.: 1177804
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1331435
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1194837
Mark Foster
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1656740
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913845
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Bass Voice
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913720
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 998553
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1346049
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1331480
Choir score
Item no.: 1175767
for: Orchester, Bass
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1201413
aus dem Singspiel "Der häusliche Krieg"
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 308431
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