In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands D940 from his last year (1828) is, in short, the composer’s most beautiful work for any number of pianos or hands. I am not alone in this ...

Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest of all pianists, plays and reflects on Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas. As he points out, Schubert can’t have known that he was soon to die, so they ...

Every morning at 6:00 a.m., he commenced writing music, and he continued until 1:00 p.m. before taking a break. Some say he composed more than 65 bars of music each day. Before he died a tragic death ...

Adored yet ignored; musical conservative yet trailblazing visionary; fully paid-up Classicist yet out-and-out Romantic; emotionally complex yet expressively simple –­ never have so many contradictions ...