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A story about the song's creation was recounted by a boyhood friend of Schubert to the composer's biographer, Heinrich Kreissle von Hellborn [5] in his Life of Franz Schubert. [6] Sir George Grove relates Kreissle's anecdote verbatim, [7] although it has been called "pretty, but untrue", [8] "apocryphal", [9] and "legend". [10] [11]
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]
First volume of Schubert's Schwanengesang as originally published in 1829. Schwanengesang , D 957, is a collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously: Liebesbotschaft (text: Ludwig Rellstab) Kriegers Ahnung (Rellstab) Frühlingssehnsucht (Rellstab) Ständchen (Rellstab) Aufenthalt (Rellstab)
Schubert has featured as a character in several films including Schubert's Dream of Spring (1931), Gently My Songs Entreat (1933), Serenade (1940), The Great Awakening (1941)—whose plot is based on a fictional episode of him fleeing Vienna to Hungary to avoid conscription [142] —It's Only Love (1947), Franz Schubert (1953), Das ...
Schubert's chamber music includes over 20 string quartets, and several quintets, trios and duos. This article constitutes a complete list of Schubert's known works organized by their genre. The complete output is divided in eight series, and in principle follows the order established by the Neue Schubert-Ausgabe printed edition.
The following is a list of the complete secular vocal output composed by Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828). It is divided into eleven sections, and attempts to reflect the most current information with regards to Schubert's catalogue.
Schubert's Opus 1: "Erlkönig", D 328, fourth version, was published by Diabelli as Schubert's "1 tes Werk" (first work) in 1821.The Lied, composed by Schubert in 1815, was later adopted along with its prior versions as No. 178 in Series XX, Vol. 3 of the AGA (1895), and in Series IV, Vol. 1 of the NSE (1970).
Franz Schubert's best known song cycles, like Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise are based on separate poems with a common theme and narrative. Other song cycles are based on consecutive excerpts of the same literary work: Schubert's "Ave Maria" is part of such a song cycle based on excerpts of the same poem, in this case by Walter Scott.