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A Serenade for Vibraphone, Piano & Double Bass
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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Arranged for Vibraphone, Piano & Double Bass, "Ständchen" (known in English by its first line "Hark, hark, the lark" or "Serenade"), D 889, is a lied for solo voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed in July 1826 in the then village of Währing. It is a setting of the "Song" in act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. The song was first published by Anton Diabelli in 1830, two year's after the composer's death. The song in its original form is relatively short, and two further verses by Friedrich Reil [de] were added to Diabelli's second edition of 1832.
Although the German translation which Schubert used has been attributed to August Wilhelm Schlegel (apparently on the basis of various editions of Cymbeline bearing his name published in Vienna in 1825 and 1826), the text is not exactly the same as the one which Schubert set: and this particular adaptation of Shakespeare had already been published as early as 1810 as the work of Abraham Voß [de], and again – under the joint names of A. W. Schlegel and Johann Joachim Eschenburg – in a collected Shakespeare edition of 1811.