Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Carlo Maria Giulini’s temperament, a combination of Mediterranean warmth and asceticism, was well attuned to ...

Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C major, which Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony performed Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall, is unique. There is nothing quite like it in the ...

Perhaps posterity's problem with Schubert is his sheer prodigality. In a career that lasted, even at a most generous estimate, only 18 years, he produced more than 1000 works. If, as Goethe famously ...

Guest Conductor Dennis Russell Davies continued his mini-tenure with the Seattle Symphony this week with an interesting set of pieces by Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert and both together. We had Liszt for ...

This week, we explore what could have been - and what is - with Franz Schubert's "Unfinished" symphony and a late 20th century sonic exploration of New York City by Aaron Jay Kernis. We'll also hear ...

T okyo Symphony Orchestra will perform a concert featuring two symphonies by Austrian composer Franz Schubert along with Alban Berg's 1935 "Violin Concerto" on Sept. 26 and 27. Led by Dutch conductor ...

The young Franz Schubert has a friend in Gustavo Dudamel. Last week, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began a cycle of Schubert’s symphonies with the opening concert dedicated to the youths dying in ...

A chance find in a Vienna apartment has uncovered a crucial fragment of Schubert’s score, and an orchestral recording of the now-complete score for the third movement has been made. Musicologists in ...

For the past two centuries, composers, academics and fans of classical music have puzzled over Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, which he abandoned in 1822 after writing the first two movements. Why ...

In 1815, Franz Schubert turned 18, and was itching for a change. He wasn't entirely happy, laboring as a teacher in his father's school. When he wasn't correcting the children's exercises, music ...