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Bernard Schubert (January 1, 1895 – August 4, 1988) was an American screenwriter and television producer during the early sound era of film and early days of television. A native New Yorker, Schubert attended the University of Pennsylvania for one year before he began working.
- Producer and screenwriter
- 1931–1959
- The Music You Might Recognise
- His Life …
- … and Times
- Why Does He Still Matter?
- Great Performers
Anyone who first encountered classical music through Disney’s imperishable Fantasia, will have heard a rather glutinous arrangement of Schubert’s Ave Maria, which ends the film; it’s also quoted in Beyoncé’s song, Ave Maria. You can hear the slow movement of his piano sonata in A in Tori Amos’s Star Whisperer, or the theme from the second movement ...
Few composers led such uneventful lives as Schubert apparently did. He rarely travelled far outside the city of Vienna, where he was born the 12th child of a schoolmaster in the Lichtental district. He began learning the violin aged eight, played the viola in his family’s string quartet, and began composing pieces for the group; at the age of 11 he...
One of the triggers to Schubert’s explosion of songwriting had been his discovery of Goethe in 1814: his setting of Gretchen am Spinnrade, from Faust, was perhaps his first great song. It was quickly followed by others to Goethe texts, such as Erlkönig and Heidenröslein. At that time the writer was the standard bearer for German romanticism, and Sc...
Appreciation of Schubert grew steadily through the 19th century, as his music was increasingly published and performed. In 1838, Robert Schumann was shown the score of the Ninth Symphony in Vienna and took a copy back to Leipzig, where Mendelssohn conducted the first public performance. Liszt described Schubert as “the most poetic musician who ever...
Schubert’s symphonies have been part of the repertoire of almost every great conductor of the 20th century, from Furtwängler to Abbado, just as his string quartets have been played by all the leading groups, from the Busch Quartet, through the Quartetto Italiano to the Takács, while among the many outstanding performances of the String Quintet on d...
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Schubert’s Zen-level appreciation for the necessity of beauty as lived in the moment is the essence of this sonata on all levels.
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Bernhard Schubert is an Austrian nature and wildlife photographer with a scientific background. He is book author and has successfully entered many international nature photography competitions.
Bernard Schubert was born on 1 January 1895 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Kind Lady (1935), The Mummy's Curse (1944) and Make a Wish (1937). He died on 4 August 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Producer, Writer, Additional Crew
- January 1, 1895
- Bernard Schubert
- August 4, 1988
Feb 10, 2023 · Bernard Labadie led his Orchestra of St. Luke’s in works by Mozart and Schubert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Chris Lee. By Oussama Zahr. Feb. 10, 2023. Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Despite...
The Bernard Schubert material spans the years 1894-1969 (bulk 1930-1945) and encompasses 2.1 linear feet. The collection includes the screenplays for JUNGLE WOMAN (1944) and THE MUMMY'S CURSE (1944) and about 40 other scripts for unproduced films, as well as playscripts for stage productions.
