His music occupied four of the top five places in the Classic 100: Chamber Music survey, but that was only one field of music in which Franz Schubert excelled. Some call him the greatest songwriter of ...

The B-Flat Piano Sonata D960, which Schubert completed two months before his death, in 1828, is a vast and complex work. It is the last of a triptych of piano sonatas that Schubert wrote, possibly in ...

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 ...