![]() ![]() The singer exhorts his lover to make him happy. The singer is surrounded by natural beauty but feels melancholy and unsatisfied until his beloved can "free the spring in my breast". "Frühlingssehnsucht" ("Longing in spring time") "Kriegers Ahnung" ("Warrior's foreboding")Ī soldier encamped with his comrades sings of how he misses his beloved, and how he fears the prospect of dying, or losing his courage, in battle. The singer invites a stream to convey a message to his beloved. Problems playing this file? See media help. The songs of Schwanengesang as found in Schubert's manuscript: The Seidl song, "Die Taubenpost", has no connection to the rest of the cycle and was appended by Haslinger at the end to round up all of Schubert's last compositions. It was customary for Schubert to respect the poet's sequence the manuscript may not represent Schubert's desired order. 8–13, as they appear in the manuscript, differs from that of the poems as Heine published them: 10, 12, 11, 13, 9, 8, which in any case were not consecutive, as the table below shows. We can assume, then, that Schubert, at least in the beginning, intended two separate single-poet collections. On 2 October 1828, after the manuscript had been written, Schubert offered the Heine set of six songs to a Leipzig publisher by the name of Probst. (The true cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise had sold well, motivating the publisher.) The title Schwanengesang is not of course the composer's but all the song titles are Heine, for one, did not name his poems. The Rellstab and Heine settings were copied in a single sitting on consecutive pages of the manuscript in Schubert's hand, and Seidl's Die Taubenpost is considered to be Schubert's last Lied - thus the basis for Haslinger's sequence, one accepted by posterity together with his conceit that a cycle exists at all. In any case, all 14 songs were composed in 1828 and the collection was published in 1829, a few months after the composer's death. Seven texts by Ludwig Rellstab (1799–1860) are followed by six by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) inclusion of the last song, to words by Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804–1875), may or may not reflect Schubert's wishes. Named by its first publisher, Tobias Haslinger, who presumably wished to present it as Schubert's last testament, Schwanengesang differs from the earlier Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise song-cycles by including settings of more than one poet. ![]() Die Taubenpost (alternative: D 965a) ( Johann Gabriel Seidl).Liebesbotschaft (text: Ludwig Rellstab). ![]() Schwanengesang ( Swan Song), D 957, is a collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously:
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