Du bist die Ruh

Franz Schubert

For tenor sax and piano

Written in F major, range F4 to B♭5

A love song of complete calm: “You are rest, the gentle peace, the longing and what stills it.” The singer clears out their heart as a home for the one they love and asks to be lit by their light alone. Schubert set Friedrich Rückert’s poem in 1823; the piano part is Schubert’s own.

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