List of compositions by Franz Schubert


, a Viennese composer of the late Classical to early Romantic eras, left a very extended body of work notwithstanding his short life. He wrote over 1500 items, or, when collections, cycles and variants are grouped, some thousand compositions. The largest group are his over six hundred Lieder for solo voice and piano. He composed nearly as many piano pieces, and further some 150 part songs, some 40 liturgical compositions and around 20 stage works like operas and incidental music. His orchestral output includes a dozen symphonies and several overtures. Schubert's chamber music includes over 20 string quartets, and several quintets, trios and duos.
Otto Erich Deutsch compiled the first comprehensive catalogue of Schubert's works and published it in 1951 as . A revised edition appeared in German in 1978. Later editions of the catalogue contained minor updates.
Publication of Schubert's compositions started during his lifetime, by opus number. After the composer's death, opus numbers continued to be assigned to new publications of his work until 1867. In the meanwhile also publications without opus number had started, for instance, from shortly after the composer's death, many songs in Diabelli's fifty Nachlaß-Lieferung editions.
There are two attempts to publish everything Schubert has composed in a single edition:
Websites such as Schubert Online provide facsimiles of Schubert's autographs and of other manuscripts and early editions of his work. Texts of Schubert's vocal music can be published without the music, for instance his Lieder at the LiederNet Archive website.

Works listed in the Deutsch catalogue

The 1951 first edition of the Deutsch catalogue attempted to list all dated works by Schubert in chronological order, assigning them a number from 1 to 965. Undated works were ordered in the range [|966–992]. Nos. 993–998 referred to manuscripts that had resurfaced shortly before the catalogue was printed.
Later versions of the catalogue adhered to the general principles that Deutsch numbers below 966 referred, in a chronological order, to compositions by Schubert with an established time of composition, and that the range 966–992 was reserved for his compositions with an uncertain date of composition. Thus "Die Taubenpost", the last Lied Schubert composed, was reassigned from D 957 No. 14 to D 965A, and D 993, an early piano composition, to D 2E.
;Spurious and doubtful works : Annex I of the first edition of the catalogue contains only a single composition under the header Spurious and doubtful works, but however also points to some compositions with authentication issues elsewhere in the catalogue. The 1978 edition of the catalogue lists 32 spurious and doubtful works in its first Anhang, including some that were for that reason removed from the main catalogue.
;Arrangements by Schubert : The 1978 version of the catalogue lists 4 arrangements by Schubert in its second Anhang
;Works of others composers copied by Schubert : Annex II in the first edition of the catalogue contains compositions by other composers copied by Schubert. In the 1978 edition the list was expanded and became Anhang III.
;"Setting" vs. "version" distinction : the New Schubert Edition distinguishes between Bearbeitung and Fassung, the first meaning an independent composition, the second stages of the same composition. Usually different settings have different D numbers, while versions are grouped under the same D number, unless when set for a different performer. The first edition of the Deutsch catalogue was less strict on that point, leading to Deutsch number reassignments in later publications. Example: is described as two settings of the same text in the original catalogue, the second having become "D deest" by the time it was published in Series IV, Volume 8 of the New Schubert Edition. On the other hand, despite a difference in key and number of movements, the original and were ultimately published under the same D number as two versions of the same sonata.

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Not in the Deutsch catalogue

The New Schubert Edition mentions several compositions without a Deutsch number, most of them lost or fragmentary:
Other: