The song in its original form is relatively short, and two further verses by Friedrich Reil were added to Diabelli's second edition of 1832.Īlthough 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 18), 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, and again – under the joint names of A. W. The song was first published by Anton Diabelli in 1830, two years after the composer's death. It is a setting of the "Song" in act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. " 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. Schubert by Josef Kriehuber (1846 lithograph)
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