Franz Schubert composed a number of works known as Ständchen, meaning serenade.
Lieder[edit]
Lieder named "Ständchen" or "Abendständchen" (evening serenade):
- "Abendständchen an Lina" ("Sei sanft wie ihre Seele"), D 265, for voice and piano, words by Gabriele von Baumberg[1]
- "Ständchen", D 889 ("Horch, horch! die Lerch im Ätherblau" / "Hark, hark, the lark"), after Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
- "Ständchen" ("Leise flehen meine Lieder"), No. 4 of Schwanengesang (Swan Song), D 957.
Part songs[edit]
Part songs known as "Ständchen" or "Nächtliches Ständchen" (serenade at night):
- "Leise, leise laßt uns singen, schlummre sanft", D 635, also known as "Ruhe", or "Nächtliches Ständchen".[2]
This work is for TTBB, having the title "Quartetto" in the composer's autograph (manuscript MH 1864/c in Vienna City Library).[3] This autograph contains the text of a single stanza, of which the text author is unknown.[2] Eusebius Mandyczewski suggests Schubert may have been the text author.[4] Variant versions of the text, in multiple stanzas, originated posthumously.
In 1900 the music was published as "Ständchen", with lyrics by Robert Graf.[2] Anton Weiß is the text author of another version.[5] Mandyczewski was the first to publish the song with its original text version (1906–1907).[6]
- "Ständchen" ("Zögernd leise, in des Dunkels nächt'ger Hülle"), D 920/921, for alto solo, TTBB or SSAA chorus and piano, words by Franz Grillparzer
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Gabriele von Baumberg. Sämmtliche Gedichte (collected poems). 1800, p. 243 (in German)
- ^ a b c Deutsch 1978, p. 367
- ^ "D 635 Leise, leise laßt uns singen". Schubert Online (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2017.
- ^ Eusebius Mandyczewski. "Zu unsere Beilage: Unbekannte Kompositionen Franz Schuberts", p. 46 in Die Musik, sixth year (1906–1907), Vol. XXII, issue 7 (in German)
- ^ Nächtliches Ständchen" at The LiederNet Archive
- ^ "Ständchen für vier Männerstimmen", Addendum, p. 4 in Die Musik, sixth year (1906–1907), Vol. XXII, issue 7 (in German)
Sources
- Deutsch, Otto (1978). Franz Schubert, thematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke in chronologischer Folge (in German). Kassel: Bärenreiter. ISBN 9783761805718.
Further reading[edit]
- Dahms, Walter [in German] (1918). Schubert (in German). Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler.
- Flower, Newman (2013). Franz Schubert - The Man And His Circle. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781473383500.
External links[edit]
- Abendständchen, D. 265: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Ständchen, D. 635 at free-scores.com