While vaguely on the subject of titles of pieces of music, I have
a silly question: which came first, swansong or Schwannengesang? Or
put differently, was the posthumous collection of Schubert lieder that
is subject of the final release in the Hyperion cycle so named by its
publisher because it was seen as Schubert's "swansong", or is "swansong"
as a phrase derived from the name of this last edition?
Sam Kemp