Franz Schubert composed a number of works known as Ständchen, meaning serenade.
Lieder named "Ständchen" or "Abendständchen" (evening serenade): Part songs known as "Ständchen" or "Nächtliches Ständchen" (serenade at night): This work is for TTBB, having the title "Quartetto" in the composer's autograph (manuscript MH 1864/c in Vienna City Library).
[2] Eusebius Mandyczewski suggests Schubert may have been the text author.
[4] Variant versions of the text, in multiple stanzas, originated posthumously.In 1900 the music was published as "Ständchen", with lyrics by Robert Graf.
[5] Mandyczewski was the first to publish the song with its original text version (1906–1907).