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WAB 84.2, is a
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composed by
Anton Bruckner
Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...
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History
Bruckner composed this
serenade
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, which he dedicated to Mrs. Schlager, the wife of the mayor of St. Florian,
[C. Howie, Chapter II, p. 22] during the beginning of his stay in
St. Florian. For the composition Bruckner used a text, which he had already used for the unfinished
lied
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', WAB 84.1.
[C. van Zwol, p. 720][U. Harten, pp. 399-400]
It is not known when the piece was performed. The work, of which the original manuscript is stored in the archive of the Liedertafel ''Frohsinn'',
was first issued in Band II/2, pp. 61–64 of the Göllerich/Auer biography. It was thereafter issued in 1954, together with ''
Sternschnuppen'', in the ''Chorblattreihe'' of Robitschek,
Vienna
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Text
''Ständchen'' is using a text of an unknown author (possibly Ernst Marinelli).
Music
The 29-bar
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long work in 6/8 is in G major
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. It is scored for quartet and tenor soloist. During the first 18 bars the text is sung by the tenor soloist with accompaniment of humming voices. From bar 19, the second part (') is sung again by the men's quartet.
Discography
There is a single recording of Bruckner's ''Ständchen'':
* Thomas Kerbl, Quartet of the Männerchorvereinigung Bruckner 12, Michael Nowak (tenor), ''Weltliche Männerchöre'' – CD: LIVA 054, 2012
References
Sources
* August Göllerich, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild'', – posthumous edited by Max Auer by G. Bosse, Regensburg, 1932
* ''Anton Bruckner – Sämtliche Werke, Band XXIII/2: Weltliche Chorwerke (1843–1893)'', Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag der Internationalen Bruckner-Gesellschaft, Angela Pachovsky and Anton Reinthaler (editor), Vienna, 1989
* Uwe Harten
Uwe Harten (born 16 August 1944) is a German musicologist, who works in Austria.
Life
Born in , Harten grew up in Hamburg, where he was a boy soprano at the Staatsoper. He took over the roles of a child. In Hamburg he also began his studies of ...
, ''Anton Bruckner. Ein Handbuch''. , Salzburg, 1996. .
* Cornelis van Zwol, ''Anton Bruckner 1824–1896 – Leven en werken'', uitg. Thoth, Bussum, Netherlands, 2012.
* Crawford Howie, ''Anton Bruckner - A documentary biography'', online revised edition
External links
*
''Ständchen G-Dur, WAB 84''
– Critical discography by Hans Roelofs
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Weltliche Chorwerke by Anton Bruckner
1846 compositions
Compositions in G major