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Further Films


Some other film titles of varying types -- feature film, documentary, animated, television, performance or video -- are noted below. Whatever information is presently available is shown.

1987: Schubert: Schwanengesang [56' documentary; Philips video. Cast: Hermann Prey and Leonard Hokanson.]
1988: Schubert: 3 Piano Sonatas
1990: Schubert: Klassix 13 [Klassix 13 began in 1985 as a TV series. The 1990 entry is a 60' biographical documentary with musical performance about Franz Schubert, directed by Nicholas Vazsonyi, with a cast consisting of Anthony Quayle and Balint Vazsonyi.]
1990: Schubert: Piano Trio Op.100, Piano Trio, D.897 [58' performance]
1992: Schubert: Symphony No. 9 [59' performance; Riccardo Muti conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.]

Schubert Silent Film Scores

These four items hardly comprise what surely must be a richer selection than I was able to find. Finding silent film scores and cue sheets with Schubert's music requires wide-ranging research in film archives. Often, accessibility to archives is severely limited because of the fragility of the material. Silent film scores themselves are not easily found or published on the Internet although the institutional collections holding them are available via online search. Even these few items show that Schubert was relied upon to provide the mood music for silent films.

Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 [Ellens Gesang, D.839; arr.]
L'ave Maria
Paris: Edouard Salabert, nd.
Piano conductor score + parts
Arr. by Francis Salabert

Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 [Erlkönig; arr.]
The erl-king
New York: C. Fischer, c.1912
Theatre orchestra, orch. Chas. J. Roberts

Schubert, Franz 1797-1828
Preghiera; lila: gavotte/W.K. Whiting
Boston: Cundy-Bettoney, c.1916

Schubert, Franz 1797-1828 [Schwanengesang. Ständchen]
Serenade
NewYork: C. Fischer, c.1907
Arr. R. Klugescheid

Source: "Collection of Silent Film Music" [ca. 1884-1931], Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.