Ständchen (Schubert)

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^[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 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

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