The tradition of the “Schubertiad,” or celebration of the music of Franz Schubert, goes back to 1815, 13 years before Schubert’s untimely death at the age of 31. What other composer (or any other artist in any other field, come to think of it) has inspired such an honorific? Pauper that he was, the local hero familiarly known as Schwammerl (“Little Mushroom”) was rich in the appreciation of his contemporaries—not to mention posterity. And while he lived his entire life in Vienna, it seems fitting that the premier festival in his name should take place far from the madding crowd in a country landscape filled with the natural beauty his art evokes so feelingly. The town of Hohenems (population at the latest count, 15,077) and especially the nearby heritage-protected village of Schwarzenberg (population, 1,790), both in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, south of the eastern end of Lake Constance, meet this description to a T. Blocks of recitals alternate between the two locations. This summer brings two volleys at Schwarzenberg’s timber-framed Angelika Kauffmann Hall, an acoustic jewel seating 600 (June 16 to 23; August 24 to September 1). The lineup of distinguished artists at this location includes the pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja, Fransceso Piemontesi, Hartmut Höll, Daniel Heide, and Kristian Bezuidenhout; the singers Christoph Prégardien, Andrè Schuen, Konstantin Krimmel, Julia Kleiter, and Anne-Sofie von Otter; and such instrumentalists as the violinist Renaud Capuçon, the cellist Raphaela Gomes, and the Quatuor Modligiani. In between, there’s a long weekend at the festival’s original home, the Markus Sittikus Hall, seating just 300, in Hohenems (July 11 to 14). And while the listener who has tired of Schubert has tired of life, the complementary voices of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák, and more are heard as well. Chiming with the times, a Liederabend by Golda Schultz and Jonathan Ware juxtaposes songs of Schubert with those of Emilie Mayer, Rebecca Clarke, and Nadia Boulanger (August 24). —Matthew Gurewitsch

In addition to Schwarzenberg, Schubertiade will also hold performances in Hohenems, Austria.