Swan song (Schubert)

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The Schwanengesang ( D  957) is a collection of songs by the composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). The songs were written from August to October 1828. The compilation of works includes poems by Ludwig Rellstab , Heinrich Heine and one by Johann Gabriel Seidl . Since it is Schubert's last major composition, the posthumously published collection was subsequently given the name Schwanengesang , traditionally the name for the last work by an artist.

The collection was put together by his publisher Tobias Haslinger a year after Schubert's death . Since the 13 songs are written immediately one after the other in the autograph , there is much to suggest that Schubert actually conceived them as a coherent cycle. On the other hand, Schubert had offered the six Heine songs to another publisher separately for publication, so that the Rellstab and Heine songs can at least be viewed as separate groups within the collection.

Schubert had certainly not designed the song Die Taubenpost to be part of the collection based on a text by Johann Gabriel Seidl, which Haslinger added on his own initiative and which thematically leads back to the first song in the cycle.

content

  1. Message of love (Ludwig Rellstab)
  2. Warrior's Hunch (Ludwig Rellstab)
  3. Longing for Spring (Ludwig Rellstab)
  4. Serenade (Ludwig Rellstab)
  5. Residence (Ludwig Rellstab)
  6. In the distance (Ludwig Rellstab)
  7. Farewell (Ludwig Rellstab)
  8. The Atlas (Heinrich Heine)
  9. Your picture (Heinrich Heine)
  10. The fisher girl (Heinrich Heine)
  11. The City (Heinrich Heine)
  12. By the sea (Heinrich Heine)
  13. The doppelganger (Heinrich Heine)
  14. Die Taubenpost (alternatively: D 965a) (Johann Gabriel Seidl)

First printing

The first edition was published by Tobias Haslinger in Vienna in March 1829 .

Edits

In 1840 Franz Liszt created a transcription of the songs for solo piano without singing (p. 560).

Web links

Wikisource: Schwanengesang  - Sources and full texts