Schwanengesang

Song cycle by Schubert, containing the last songs written by the composer in 1828, including seven settings of Rellstab, six of Heine (his only settings of that poet), and Seidl's ‘Pigeon Post/Die Taubenpost’. The idea of a cycle was not Schubert's, but that of the publisher, as was the title, which was invented as an allusion to Schubert's death; the inclusion of Seidl's song was also the publisher's afterthought. The songs are ‘Liebesbotschaft’, ‘Kriegers Ahnung’, ‘Frühlingssehnsucht’, ‘Ständchen’, ‘Aufenthalt’, ‘In der Ferne’, ‘Abschied’, ‘Der Atlas’, ‘Ihr Bild’, ‘Das Fischermädchen’, ‘Die Stadt’, ‘Am Meer’, ‘Der Doppelgänger’, and ‘Die Taubenpost’.