SchubertQuintet

Schubert’s Late Works: String Quintet — Peace Before Death

Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C major, D.956 stands at a rare point where beauty and sorrow exist in quiet balance.Written in the final weeks of his life in 1828, it is one of Schubert’s last major works; he died at thirty-one without ever hearing it performed. Yet despite its...