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"Ständchen" (known in English by its first line "Hark, hark, the lark"), D 889, is a lied for solo voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed in July 1826 in the village of Währing (now a suburb of Vienna). It is a setting of the "Song" in Act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
The lark in mythology and literature stands for daybreak, as in Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale", "the bisy larke, messager of day", [18] and Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, "the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" (11–12).
The "lark at break of day arising" (line 11) symbolizes the Speaker's rebirth to a life where he can now sing "hymns at heaven's gate" (line 12). This creates another contrast in the poem. The once deaf heaven that caused the Speaker's prayers to be unanswered is now suddenly able to hear.
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".
Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872. Cymbeline (/ ˈ s ɪ m b ɪ l iː n /), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (c. 10–14 AD) [a] and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain ...
George Meredith in 1893 by G. F. Watts "The Lark Ascending" is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a demonstration of effortless ...
A servant (who Shakespeare may have intended to be the same character as "Peter") needs the help of Romeo and Benvolio to read the guest list for Capulet's party, in Romeo and Juliet. A servant to the Lord Chief Justice is abused by Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 2 .
An Sylvia" became one of three Shakespeare texts set to music by Schubert; the other two are "Ständchen" ("Hark, hark! the lark") and "Trinklied" ("Bacchus, feister Fürst des Weins", D 888). [3] Schubert's friend, Franz von Schober, kept the original manuscript and managed Schubert's music after the composer's death. [2]