“Anyone who loves music can never be completely unhappy.” Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Come immerse yourself in the musical world of Schubert. Take a winter’s journey to the beautiful miller’s wife, listen to the wanderer’s fantasy, and serenade the Erlking! Browse our sheet music and scores, and discover more about Schubert today!
Franz Schubert was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. His friends called him “Schwammerl”, which means “little mushroom”, because of his small, chubby stature. His response however was simple, “take people as they are, not as they should be”, and that is exactly what the people did in 1821, when they organised the “Schubertiades” in his honour, a series of highly acclaimed salon concerts in Vienna, in which his works (especially his songs) were showcased, and in with Schubert himself played the piano. Even today, the term Schubertiade is widely used to describe a series of concerts or music festivals.
For a long time, Schubert lived in the shadow of Ludwig van Beethoven, whom he greatly admired, and in whose Vienna neighbourhood he lived for a short while, although at the time, the two composers never actually meet. Schubert said of his role model: “I think I could become something... but who can do anything after Beethoven?” They finally met in 1822, and a great mutual respect and admiration grew. When Beethoven passed in 1827, Schubert was one of the torchbearers at his funeral. Schubert himself died just a year later, much before his time, but through the abundance and wealth of his work, he and his music were quickly viewed along with Beethoven as immortal.
His composition “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, is often called the birth of Art Song. He set over 600 poems to music, including the famous song cycles Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller. Some of the most renowned recordings of Schubert’s songs were made in the 1960s by Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) and Hubert Giesen (piano).
But Schubert was much more than just the sum of his songs, he wrote numerous works for piano, many symphonies and masses, and he also tried his hand at opera. His symphonies are divided into six early works, and two late works that were not discovered until after his death, the Unfinished Symphony in B Minor and “The Great” Symphony in C Major, D944.
A few more of Schubert’s highlights are the Forellenquintett or Trout Quintet for Piano and String Quartet, the Schubert Impromptus, and the Moments Musicaux by Schubert for Piano.
for: Piano
Item no.: 401103
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401122
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 116950
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586171
Series 1: 'Ave Maria', 'Erlkönig' and Ten Other Great Songs
Reproduced from the 1838 Diabelli Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 229482
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 359570
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 172289
Thirteen lieder on poems by Rellstab and Heine D 957 / "Die Taubenpost" D 965 A
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 608250
(Collection, Urtext)
for: Male choir
Music score
Item no.: 379193
Winter Journey
for: Voice (high), guitar
Music score, single part
Item no.: 694789
Nr. 2 Es-Durop. 90D 899
for: Piano
Item no.: 356055
Reprint der Originalausgabe
"Musik für Gitarre" von Karl Scheit
for: Flute [violin], guitar
Set of parts (reprint)
Item no.: 113889
for: für Singstimme und Gitarre
Item no.: 113885
op. 21
for: Flute, viola, cello, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 761274
Tanzzyklen, die zu Schuberts Lebzeiten oder bald nachher erschienen sind.
Band 1 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125017
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 555141
Alle späteren Werkreihen und die kleineren Einzelstücke.
Band 2 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125018
Grüne Reihe Edition Peters
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen von Klaus Burmeister op. posth. 137
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 494137
"Arpeggione"
Arrangement
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 140235
he Quintet in C Major, the 15 Quartets, and Two Trios
for: String ensemble
Book
Item no.: 244348
Trout Quintet
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401446
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674549
for: Piano
Item no.: 401113
(Urtext)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 196849
Version for Viola
with marked and unmarked string parts
Free Download of Arpeggione part
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174171
25 Transcriptions for Cello and Piano 2
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 623136
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1103368
including the unfinished works cloth boards
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1163209
Signature Series (ABRSM)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1163196
Enoch Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 962265
for: Soloist (tenor), male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 881803
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1106873
Misc
for: Viola
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204346
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score, CD
Item no.: 498470
No. 45
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 322966
von D 365 36 Originaltänze für Klavier
for: Violine (Flöte) und Gitarre
Ensemble score
Item no.: 475428
for young male chorus (with cambiata voices) and piano (simplified)
Emerging Voices
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682683
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722263
D 920, F-Dur op. post. 135
Fassung für Männerchor
for: Soloist (alto/baritone), male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 214146
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 486799
D. 946
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 552521
Vocal Collection
for: Voice (low), piano
Buch
Item no.: 558661
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 933150
for: SATB divisi with STB Soli
Book
Item no.: 930603
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score, CD
Item no.: 498469
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105410
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 620957
C
for: Voice (low), piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1478700