Nikolaus Harnoncourt believes that Schubert failed to finish his 8th symphony because ‘there is simply nothing else to say’. And yet the puzzle of this intriguing half work remains As the hot-headed ...

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...

The most poetic musician who ever lived? It’s hard to disagree with Liszt’s appraisal of Schubert, who, in his short life, used his astonishing gift for melodic and harmonic invention to create many ...

Franz Schubert composed his Symphony No.8 in 1822, but never completed it, making only two movements along with an outline of a third. Nearly 200 years later, Huawei, Emmy-awarding composer Lucas ...

The composer Franz Schubert died on November 19 1828, aged only 31. This article, by Roger Scruton, was first published by The Telegraph in 2012. Franz Schubert excelled in every musical genre, ...

Lorraine Byrne Bodley’s fascinating new life of the great composer has a shrewd eye for the relation between man and music Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose ...