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The Spirit of Schubert

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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.

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Episodes

Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days

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.

Mar 31, 2012•5 min

Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis

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.

Mar 31, 2012•5 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 8

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?

Mar 31, 2012•30 min

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

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 uncertainty exists about the cause of Schubert's death from syphilis, what do his attempts at mercury remedies reveal about his final few years? The medical historian and author of Romanticism and the Sciences Andrew Cunningham, examines The UnRomantic death of t...

Mar 30, 2012•12 min

Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church

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

Mar 30, 2012•4 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 7

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.

Mar 30, 2012•28 min

Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school

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.

Mar 30, 2012•6 min

Composer of the Week Schubert 1 of 2

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

Mar 30, 2012•50 min

The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance

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 controlling an audience would create, and how this new wave of respectability enabled writing, composing and performance to prosper.

Mar 29, 2012•12 min

Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing

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.

Mar 29, 2012•5 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 6

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

Mar 29, 2012•26 min

Schubert's Vienna: 13 Theatres

Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and discovers the importance of theatre in Schubert’s Vienna.

Mar 29, 2012•5 min

Schubert's Vienna: 12 Biedermeier

Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what lurks there with the University of Vienna's Karl Vocelka.

Mar 28, 2012•3 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 5

Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what Schubert was looking for and what he found in his 'wanderings'.

Mar 28, 2012•32 min

Schubert's Vienna: 9 Prater and Zoo

Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard Heindl and Regina Karner of the Vienna Museum Fashion Collection to hear some of the surprising things that made for a good day out in Schubert's Vienna.

Mar 27, 2012•6 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 4

Tom Service introduces the fourth episode of The Schubert Lab and tries to answer the day's question; Schubert makes the piano represent the outdoors as well as any painting of the period. How does he do it?

Mar 27, 2012•25 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 3

Tom Service tries to answer today's question: What was the magic of Vienna and how did it shape Schubert's music?

Mar 27, 2012•27 min

Schubert's Vienna: 8 Newspapers

Sean Rafferty drops in at the offices of the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna's oldest newspaper, and talks to its editor Reinhard Göweil and journalist Richard Solder to see what was in the news in Schubert's Vienna.

Mar 26, 2012•5 min

Schubert's Vienna: 7 Housing

Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the Vienna Museum and Caroline Jaeger-Klein from the Vienna University of Technology and is guided round the house where Schubert was born by Peter Stuiber

Mar 26, 2012•6 min

The Schubert Essay - Episode 3

Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry. Robert Vilain, a specialist in the German poetic tradition, examines Schubert's poetic sources from Goethe to Wilhelm Muller

Mar 26, 2012•11 min

Schubert Labs - Episode 2

Tom Service presents the second episode of The Schubert Lab, where he aims to find out what Schubert got up to with his mates.

Mar 26, 2012•31 min

The Schubert Essay - Episode 2

Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often fall short of explanation. The writer, philosopher and retired medical doctor Raymond Tallis re examines the neurological and psychological evidence of a composer who increasingly meditated on the darker side of the human psyche and human relationships

Mar 26, 2012•11 min

The Schubert Essay - Episode 1

The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion. He went in pursuit of the lost works of a neglected composer, Franz Schubert, and his pilgrimage resulted in the discovery of the score of Rosamunde. Travel writer Simon Calder explores the journey of anticipation and what drove the founding editor of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians to seek out the work of a relatively unpopular composer.

Mar 26, 2012•10 min

Claiming Schubert

As part of Radio 3's Spirit of Schubert season, Sir John Tusa explores the many and varied ways in which the composer has been used and reinvented after his death, in politics, art and literature. Who has claimed Schubert - and why? And what are the different things that he has come to represent since his death in 1837?

Mar 25, 2012•43 min
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