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Of Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven said: “Franz has my soul.” Franz Liszt called him “the most poetic musician that ever was”. So when the Austrian composer died of syphilis at the unripe age of 31, one could argue that the world saw the greatest instance of a master cut off before his prime. Schubert had already become a prolific writer of art songs (“Lieder”) that combined poetry and music to tell a story. He wrote over 600 of them. ‘Ständchen’ (‘Serenade’) was written in 1826 and was released posthumously in 1830. It was later famously arranged for solo piano by Liszt and I prefer the inclusion of cello as well.
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