Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

composed a number of works known as Ständchen, meaning

serenade In music, a serenade (; also sometimes called a serenata, from the Italian) is a musical composition or performance delivered in honour of someone or something. Serenades are typically calm, light pieces of music. The term comes from the Ital ...

Lieder

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er 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 ''

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''. *"Ständchen" ("Leise flehen meine Lieder"), No. 4 of ''

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'' (''Swan Song''), D 957.

Part songs

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s 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

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, having the title "Quartetto" in the composer's autograph (manuscript MH 1864/c in

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). This autograph contains the text of a single stanza, of which the text author is unknown.

Eusebius Mandyczewski Eusebius Mandyczewski (, ; 18 August 1857, in Molodiia – 13 August 1929, in Vienna) was a Romanian musicologist, composer, conductor, and teacher. He was an author of numerous musical works and is highly regarded within Austrian, Romanian a ...

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 für vier Männerstimmen"
Addendum, p. 4 in ''Die Musik'', sixth year (1906–1907), Vol. XXII, issue 7

* "Ständchen" ("Zögernd leise, in des Dunkels nächt'ger Hülle"), D 920/921, for alto solo,

or SSAA chorus and piano, words by

Franz Grillparzer Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He ...

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Ständchen, D. 635
at free-scores.com {{Set index article Songs with music by Franz Schubert

Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

Lieder

Part songs

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