It’s a humble Catholic prayer, with a simple but incredibly moving tune by Franz Schubert. But who has performed ‘Ave Maria’ and what are the lyrics? Despite being one of the world’s favourite ...

Died: 19 November 1828, Vienna Born into a musical family, he was a gifted pianist, organist, violinist and boy soprano. His foray into composition began with lessons from Antonio Salieri, with whom ...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t have known that he was soon to die, so they ...

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist. We live in an age of isolation. Its dangerous effects are becoming ever clearer: online radicalization, increasingly poisonous politics, evidence that more and more ...

Franz Schubert, a towering figure in music, arguably ranks among the best melodists in the classical and romantic tradition. His short life of 31 years belies a vast reservoir of compositions: seven ...

Every morning at 6:00 a.m., he commenced writing music, and he continued until 1:00 p.m. before taking a break. Some say he composed more than 65 bars of music each day. Before he died a tragic death ...

The first sound audiences hear when sitting down to watch DC’s new big screen comic book offering, The Batman, is the opening of Schubert’s Ave Maria. The track, performed by Tiffin Boys’ Choir, a ...

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