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 ...

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 ...

Franz Schubert admired Mozart and in 1816 wrote in his diary, "O Mozart! immortal Mozart! what countless impressions of a brighter, better life hast thou stamped upon our souls!” This was the year ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Nov. 19, 1828, Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When ...