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  1. 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 a...

  2. The Schubert Essay - Episode 7 Schubert and Performance

    During the 19th century public performance became polite and professional.

  3. The Schubert Essay - Episode 6 Schubert and Snow

    Night Waves' Philip Dodd reflects on the paradoxes on snow in music and literature and...

  4. The Schubert Essay - Episode 5 Schubert and Scotland

    Jenny Uglow concentrates on Schubert and Scotland exploring his settings of Ossian and...

  5. The Schubert Essay - Episode 4 When Schubert Met Beethoven

    The novelist Clare Morrall imagines what may have happened during one of Schubert’s...

  6. The Schubert Essay - Episode 3

    Schubert's voice emerges uniquely from song which emanates from poetry.

  7. The Schubert Essay - Episode 2

    Attempts to explain both Schubert's achievements and mood swings through theory, often...

  8. The Schubert Essay - Episode 1

    The journey Sir George Grove made to Vienna by train was one of vision and passion.

  9. Schubert's Vienna:18 Last Days

    Sean Rafferty is taken to the ‘Sterbewohnung’, the house where Schubert spent his...

  10. Schubert's Vienna: 9 Prater and Zoo

    Sean Rafferty meets Prater Collection curator Ursula Storch, zoo historian Gerhard and...

  11. Schubert's Vienna: 8 Newspapers

    Sean Rafferty drops in at the offices of the Wiener Zeitung, Vienna's oldest and talks...

  12. Schubert's Vienna: 7 Housing

    Sean Rafferty hears about the layout of Schubert's Vienna from Sándor Békési of the...

  13. Schubert's Vienna: 6 Coffee

    Sean Rafferty visits fifth generation coffee roaster Thomas Meinl at Julius Meinl to...

  14. Schubert's Vienna: 5 Coffee Houses and Smoking

    Sean Rafferty visits Maximillan Platzer, proprietor of Café Wiemer and Eva Abi-Fadel...

  15. Schubert's Vienna: 4 Secret Police

    Researcher Karin Schneider and Karl Vocelka, Head of History at Vienna University tell...

  16. Schubert's Vienna: 3 Congress of Vienna

    Sean Rafferty learns about the Congress of Vienna from Karl Vocelka, Head of History...

  17. Schubert's Vienna: 2 Drink

    Sean Rafferty finds out about drinking, Schubert-style, from restaurant manager Udo...

  18. Schubert's Vienna: 17 Syphilis

    Sean Rafferty sees grisly evidence of Schubert’s syphilitic condition with Dr of the...

  19. Schubert's Vienna: 16 Lichtenthal Church

    Sean Rafferty is guided round the Lichtenthal Church, scene of Schubert’s baptism by...

  20. Schubert's Vienna: 15 Hofburg and school

    Sean Rafferty follows in Schubert’s schoolboy footsteps as Nora Tunkel takes him to...

  21. Schubert's Vienna: 14 Dancing

    Sean Rafferty is taken for a turn around the ballroom by period dance specialist Pia...

  22. Schubert's Vienna: 13 Theatres

    Sean Rafferty talks to Thomas Trabitsch, director of the Austrian Theatre Museum and...

  23. Schubert's Vienna: 12 Biedermeier

    Sean Rafferty delves below the elegant surface of Biedermeier Vienna to find what with...

  24. Schubert's Vienna: 11 Schubert's Clothes

    Sean Rafferty rifles through the contents of Schubert's wardrobe with Regina Karner of...

  25. Schubert's Vienna: 10 Wallersee and Salzburg

    Sean Rafferty travels to Upper-Austria and Salzburg to follow in the footsteps of one...

  26. Schubert's Vienna: 1 Food

    Sean Rafferty asks Udo Kaubek, Manager of Julius Meinl am Graben restaurant, about the...

  27. Schubert Labs - Episode 8

    In the eight and final episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the Is...

  28. Schubert Labs - Episode 7

    In the seventh episode of The Schubert Lab, Tom Service tries to answer the question:...

  29. Schubert Labs - Episode 6

    Tom Service tries to answer today's question: Schubert; classical or romantic? Was he...

  30. Schubert Labs - Episode 5

    Tom Service presents the fifth episiode of The Schubert Lab and investigates what was...

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