Franz Schubert
Written in B♭ major, range G3 to C5
A serenade at night: “Softly my songs plead through the night to you.” The singer begs his love to come down to him in the quiet grove, where even the nightingales plead for him. Schubert wrote it in August 1828, three months before he died; his publisher later put it in a collection called Schwanengesang, “Swan Song”.
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