Ständchen, WAB 84.2

History#

Bruckner composed this serenade, which he dedicated to Mrs. Schlager, the wife of the mayor of St. Florian, 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 , WAB 84.1. 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,

Text#

Ständchen is using a text of an unknown author (possibly Ernst Marinelli).

Music#

The 29-bar long work in 6/8 is in G major. It is scored for SATB 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

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, 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
• Live performance by the Linzer Singakademie in the Stadtpfarrkirche (Mai 2024): Aus dem Frohsinn Archiv - Ständchen, WAB 84 (um 1846)