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Article: Heine and the Composers
- Article from:
- Parnassus : Poetry in Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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1. Self-scrutiny I
We're in a cozy salon, soft in focus, lit with warm red, full of upholstered leather furniture in the best modern taste. The soprano, sober in a fur-collared jacket, gazes at us as the pianist plays the gende prelude. There's something odd about the windows: The left one shows a somewhat jittery scene, as if a minor earthquake were taking place unnoticed; the right, an eye and part of the mouth of the soprano's huge face.
2. Self-scrutiny II
Heinrich Heine and Franz Schubert were born in the same year, 1797. If Heine had died when Schubert died, in 1828, it would have been an enormous loss to German letters and German music alike for one thing, Wagner might never have ...