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Franz Schubert (1875), after an 1825 watercolor. Wilhelm August Rieder (1796–1880). Oil on canvas. Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. Schubert's life (1797-1828) is the quintessential example of the...

Musicologist and pianist Daniel E. Freeman offers insights into the unique appeal of Schubert’s best symphonies and the musical environment from which they originated. He also provides tips on how to listen to these beloved works with a greater appreciation of the techniques that the composer used to create them.

Franz Schubert at the piano while a friend sings one of his lieder.

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 enduring masterpieces

Sculpted in ZBrush, the color texture was painted in Substance Painter, rendered in Maya with Arnold, used Xgen core for the hair. Schubert wasn’t famous during his lifetime and probably couldn’t afford a highly skilled artist to paint his portrait, most of the portraits of him were done decades after his death when his music finally started to make it to the mainstream. All I could find as a reference was just one photo of a cast impression of his life/death mask, unfortunately the original…

Franz Schubert

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"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies" -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) Just saw this amazing painting, and I had to share it here as well, this remarkable work by the painter Julius Schmid (1854-1935), portraying a scene with the notable composer Franz Schubert... One name that I have been hearing from time to time, I should indeed pay more attention to his music...