ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two songs to poems by Johann Mayrhofen: Der zurnenden Diana (To the Angry Diana), and Nachtstuck (Nocturne). After Franz Schubert's agreement with Sauer & M. J. Leidesdorf concluded at the end of 1824, he made use of several publishers, but only on an ad hoc basis. The publishers flatter themselves that they are offering a welcome gift to all friends of indigenous art. The claim that Cappi & Co. had themselves chosen the songs for publication has no foundation whatsoever, and has helped to promote the myth that Schubert's publishers compiled his song sets and not the composer. The fact that Schubert chose songs about people who welcome rather than fear death suggests that she might have told him at some stage that she would like to go to her death singing. She died in 1828 at the age of 39.
