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Ständchen - for Alto Solo, Women's Chorus and Piano
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Ständchen - for Alto Solo, Women's Chorus and Piano. Composed by Franz Schubert. Edited by Paul Boepple. Sws. Choral. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed July 1827. Opus 135. 20 pages. Theodore Presser Company #352-00015. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.352000150).UPC: 680160055784. Octavo inches. Key: F major. German, English. Text: Paul Boepple; Franz Grillparzer. Paul Boepple, Franz Grillparzer. Poem by Franz Grillparzer.
How this delightful work originated is told by Anna Froehlich: Whenever G------'s birthday was near, I would ask Grillparzer to write some verses. This time, he answered: 'Well-, why yes, if an idea occurs to me.' 'Better see to it that an idea does occur to you!' A few days later he brought me the 'Staendchen. When I showed it to Schubert and asked him to set it to music, he exclaimed: 'But this is very beautiful!' Looking at it for a while he added: 'Yes, I have it, it's already done.' Three days later he brought me the score, written for men's voices. 'No Schubert, this way I can't use it, you must set it for women's voices.' Soon he brought it to me the way it is now. When we performed it for my friend, Schubert did not come as he had promised. 'Oh yes, I must have forgotten'. Also, when we performed it in public, having invited him repeatedly,-no Schubert. Someone had the idea that he might be in a well-known beer garden nearby. Sure enough, there he sat. After hearing his piece he was very much moved and said to me: Truly, I would never have thought it was so beautiful'. .