Serenade

Franz Schubert

For tuba and piano

In F major, range D2 to G3

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”.

Also as a duet for two tubas

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