Franz Peter Schubert came of prolific peasant stock. His father, Franz Schubert, parish schoolmaster of Lichtenthal, now a suburb of Vienna, had 14 children by his first wife, five by his second.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Peter Schubert, the citizens of his birthplace, Vienna, arranged to hear his music. Herr Franz Schalk, conductor of the state opera ...

Franz Schubert was undervalued in his own lifetime and for at least the next century because he died young and, for all the appreciation of his intimate circle of friends, he failed to achieve ...