Schwanengesang (Swan Song), D 957, is a collection of 14 songs written by Franz Schubert at the end of his life and published posthumously:

1. Liebesbotschaft (text: Ludwig Rellstab)
2. Kriegers Ahnung (Rellstab)
3. Frühlingssehnsucht (Rellstab)
4. Ständchen (Rellstab)
5. Aufenthalt (Rellstab)
6. In der Ferne (Rellstab)
7. Abschied (Rellstab)
8. Der Atlas (Heinrich Heine)
9. Ihr Bild (Heine)
10. Das Fischermädchen (Heine)
11. Die Stadt (Heine)
12. Am Meer (Heine)
13. Der Doppelgänger (Heine)
14. Die Taubenpost (alternative: D 965a) (Johann Gabriel Seidl)

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The autograph manuscript of the collection is preserved in the Morgan Library & Museum.

Named by its first publisher, Tobias Haslinger, who presumably wished to present it as Schubert's last testament, Schwanengesang differs from the earlier Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise song-cycles by including settings of more than one poet. Seven texts by Ludwig Rellstab (1799–1860) are followed by six by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856); inclusion of the last song, to words by Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804–1875), may or may not reflect Schubert's wishes. In any case, all 14 songs were composed in 1828 and the collection was published in 1829, a few months after the composer's death.

The Rellstab and Heine settings were copied in a single sitting on consecutive pages of the manuscript in Schubert's hand, and Seidl's Die Taubenpost is considered to be Schubert's last Lied — thus the basis for Haslinger's sequence, one accepted by posterity together with his conceit that a cycle exists at all. (The true cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Die Winterreise had sold well, motivating the publisher.) The title Schwanengesang is not the composer's but all the song titles are; Heine, for one, did not name his poems.

The songs of Schwanengesang as found in Schubert's manuscript:

4. "Ständchen" ("Serenata")

Sung in Italian by Beniamino Gigli accompanied by members of the orchestra of La Scala, conducted by Carlo Sabajno (1933)

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8. "Der Atlas" (choir)

Performed by Kammerchor Nikolasseee, Berlin (2:10)

13. "Der Doppelgänger" (3:21)

Ukrainian words by M. Rylski. Sung by Mark Serdyuk accompanied by Grigory Hansburg (piano)

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Schubert had earlier in his career set to music a single poem titled Schwanengesang, his D 744, by Johann Senn.

Franz Liszt later transcribed the entire set for solo piano. While staying faithful to Schubert's original, he often changes the piano texture as a way of providing a personal commentary on the text and music. Liszt reordered the songs in the following way: 11, 10, 5, 12, 7, 6, 4, 9, 3, 1, 8, 13, 14 and 2.

• List of songs by Franz Schubert
• List of compositions by Franz Schubert

• Ingo Müller: "Eins in Allem und Alles in Einem": Zur Ästhetik von Gedicht- und Liederzyklus im Lichte romantischer Universalpoesie. In: Günter Schnitzler und Achim Aurnhammer (Hrsg.): Wort und Ton. Freiburg i. Br. 2011 (= Rombach Wissenschaften: Reihe Litterae. Bd. 173), S. 243–274.