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The Spirit of Schubert

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  • Composer of the Week: Schubert Part 2 of 2

    April 2, 2012 · 51 min

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer

  • Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days

    March 31, 2012 · 5 min

    Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his final days and where he composed some of his greatest works, and goes to the Zentralfriedhof where Schubert is buried.

  • Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis

    March 31, 2012 · 5 min

    Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr Beatrix Patzak, director of the Federal Pathology and Anatomy Museum, and hears about the symptoms, progress and treatment of the disease.

  • Schubert Labs - Episode 8

    March 31, 2012 · 30 min

    In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Is Schubert's final year an end or a begining?

  • The Schubert Essay - Episode 8 The UnRomantic death of the mercurial Schubert

    March 30, 2012 · 12 min

    Romance proved difficult for Schubert - he stood barely five feet tall, with a long oval face and a deeply cleft chin. In turning to the streets of 19th century Vienna, "a night in the arms of Venus lead to a lifetime on Mercury" Whilst…

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  • Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church

    March 30, 2012 · 4 min

    Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism and first public performance, by parishioner Hannah Martin.

  • Schubert Labs - Episode 7

    March 30, 2012 · 28 min

    In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question: Who is Schubert? Prove whether he was a composer up with the angels or bathed in slime.

  • Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school

    March 30, 2012 · 6 min

    Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to Mass sung by the Vienna Boys’ Choir at the Hofburgkapelle, and reads Schubert’s school report with Simon Posch, director of the Vienna House of Music.

  • Composer of the Week Schubert 1 of 2

    March 30, 2012 · 50 min

    Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Franz Schubert, as part of a season of programmes devoted to the Viennese composer

  • The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance

    March 29, 2012 · 12 min

    During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional. Audiences listened attentively in an environment free of gimmicks, and performance criticism blossomed. Night Waves' Matthew Sweet examines the legacy that…

  • Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing

    March 29, 2012 · 5 min

    Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia Brocza and hears how Schubert’s Vienna was waltz-crazy.

  • Schubert Labs - Episode 6

    March 29, 2012 · 26 min

    Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he either, neither or both?

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BBC Radio 3 tells you everything you need to know about Franz Schubert. These free downloads will cover every aspect of the life of one of the greatest ever composers.