Gesang (An Sylvia; Who is Sylvia?)
| Song Title | Gesang (An Sylvia; Who is Sylvia?) (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Franz Schubert |
| Author(s): | Eduard von Bauernfeld (after William Shakespeare) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Admiring; Adoration; Appreciation; Asking; Beauty; Blindness; Bringing; Commending; Dwellings; Earth; Excelling; Fair; Favor; Garlands; Gifts; Grace; Heaven; Helping; Holy; Inhabiting; Kindness; Lending; Mortality; Mystery; Nobility; Praising; Repairing; Singing; Status; Swains; Sylvia; Wisdom; Women; Worshipping |
| First Line | Was ist Silvia (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1826 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=14883 |
| Larger Work | Vier Lieder (Search) |
| Musical Form | Strophic (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Elizabethan poetry and drama (Search) |
| Original Language | German (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/8/8f/IMSLP12294-SchubertD891_An_Sylvia.pdf |
| Catalog Designation | D. 891; Op. 106 no. 4 (Search) |
| Range: | E4 - F#5 (Search) |
| Original Key | A Major (Search) |
| Sources Cited | Lieder.net (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |