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Franz Schubert composed a number of works known as Ständchen, meaning serenade.

Lieder

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
• "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

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".

  This work is for TTBB, having the title "Quartetto" in the composer's autograph (manuscript MH 1864/c in Vienna City Library). This autograph contains the text of a single stanza, of which the text author is unknown. Eusebius Mandyczewski suggests Schubert may have been the text author. Variant versions of the text, in multiple stanzas, originated posthumously.

  In 1900 the music was published as "Ständchen", with lyrics by Robert Graf. Anton Weiß is the text author of another version. Mandyczewski was the first to publish the song with its original text version (1906–1907).

• "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

• Ständchen (disambiguation)

References

1. Gabriele von Baumberg. Sämmtliche Gedichte (collected poems). 1800, p. 243 (in German)
2. ^ Deutsch 1978, p. 367
3. "D 635 Leise, leise laßt uns singen". Schubert Online (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2017.
4. Eusebius Mandyczewski. "Zu unsere Beilage: Unbekannte Kompositionen Franz Schuberts", p. 46 in Die Musik, sixth year (1906–1907), Vol. XXII, issue 7 (in German)
5. Nächtliches Ständchen" at The LiederNet Archive
6. "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

• Dahms, Walter (1918). Schubert (in German). Berlin: Schuster & Loeffler.
• Flower, Newman (2013). Franz Schubert - The Man And His Circle. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781473383500.

External links

• Abendständchen, D. 265: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
• Ständchen, D. 635 at free-scores.com

• Set index articles
• Songs with music by Franz Schubert
• Serenades