Some Links to Franz Schubert Web Sites

Schubert Resources

• Schubert Institute (UK) includes an index, listing of events, information on Schubert's life and works, a bibliography, and on-line articles. The "life" section includes chronology, biography, a Musical Times biography from 1886, bibliography, personalia, and quotes. A fabulous Schubert site!
• Schubert Society of the USA. The site includes articles, downloadable PDF files of selected scores, a page of links, and membership information.
• Secrets behind Schubert, a collection of info on Schubert's life, music and most famous works created by Kristofer Andréasson. The wittily named "Cybertiad" allows the reader to contribute. For those into big sound files and pictures, there's a wonderful (but slow-loading) graphics version of the site
• Schubert Autographs. A resource developed in conjunction with the Vienna City Library, this site has reproductions of more than 500 music autographs documents pertaining to Schubert's life.
• Portraits and Pictures:
  1. The Franz Schubert Picture Gallery
  2. Pictures of Schubert Memorial Sites by Tomoko Yamamoto, especially his journey with Vogl in 1825.
  3. Schubert im Bild from AEIOU (The Annotatable Electronic Interactive Oesterreich Universal Information System)
  4. 10 differences between Beethoven and Schubert with supporting images (by Cynthia Cyrus)
• Links:
  1. DMOZ Open Directory Schubert Entry
  2. Swansea German Department's Schubert Links

Basic biography for the amateur Schubert fan

• Matt Boynick's Schubert Page from Classical Music Pages
• Classical Music Archives Bio, with a nice image of the birthplace and of a Schubertiad. Also offers Deutsch listings and many, many MIDI files
• Österreich-Lexikon biography in German and in English; these are the "aeiou" people, and they have a great selection of images
• Naxos biography of Schubert
• Sounds Like Schubert, a very readable site by John A. Bruzas
• Schubert biography from The Symphony; its focus is clear from the sponsor's title
• Wikipedia Schubert entry (English) and Wikipedia Schubert entry (German)

Resources on Schubert's Works

• The "Lied and Song Texts Page" This page gives texts, translations, and poet information for a number of composers; Schubert entries are gathered under four labels: Die Schöne Müllerin; Schwanengesang; Winterreise; Miscellaneous Lieder. A useful site!
• Catalog of Works by Franz Schubert based on the Deutsch catalog; provides some recommendations for selected recordings. A listing by Deutsch number is available. Both pages are maintained by Paul Geffen.
• Selected sheet music and scores from Music-Scores.com.
• Notes on Schubert by pianist Bart Berman, including an article on the unfinished sonatas, analyses of several piano duets, some links and descriptions of Berman's CDs.
• Winterreise, a site developed by Margo Briessinck, with translations, MIDI files, performance reviews, and selected articles on the cycle.

Other Schubert Resources

• Schuberts Geburtshaus, a site with several video clips (which I have not viewed).
• Schubert Stichting (Dutch Schubert Foundation) from the Netherlands. Includes information about the annual masterclass.
• Scott Burnham's Essay, "The Heavenly Length of Schubert's Music" from Ideas, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1999