“Ständchen” (known in English by its first line “Hark, hark, the lark“), D 889, is a lied for solo voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed in July 1826 in the village of Währing (now a suburb of Vienna). It is a setting of the “Song” in Act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. The song was first […]