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"When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love."

Key Points

  • The Viennese composer Franz Schubert was a gifted song writer who created more than six hundred Lieder and several famous song cycles.
  • Erlking—a through-composed Lied based on a German legend set in a dramatic poem by Goethe—is one of his most famous songs.
  • Schubert died young and impoverished, in part because of his bohemian lifestyle.

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