Programme . thee tosleep. My father, my father, and seest thou not these Erlkings daughters at the gloomyplace? My son, my son, I see it clearly: the old willows look so gray. I love thee, thy beauteous form enchants me; and if thourt not willing, Illuse force. My father, my father, now he seizes hold of me! Erlking has doneme a harm! The father shudders in terror; he rides fast, he holds the groaning child in hisarms, and reaches his court-yard with trouble and hardship; in his arms the childwas dead. Schubert composed the music to Goethes ballad in 1815. Thereare four versions. The fourth an
Programme . thee tosleep. My father, my father, and seest thou not these Erlkings daughters at the gloomyplace? My son, my son, I see it clearly: the old willows look so gray. I love thee, thy beauteous form enchants me; and if thourt not willing, Illuse force. My father, my father, now he seizes hold of me! Erlking has doneme a harm! The father shudders in terror; he rides fast, he holds the groaning child in hisarms, and reaches his court-yard with trouble and hardship; in his arms the childwas dead. Schubert composed the music to Goethes ballad in 1815. Thereare four versions. The fourth and definitive is dedicated to MorizGraf von Dietrichstein, and it is catalogued as Op. i. The originalkey is G minor. Schnell, 4-4. Spaun tells of his going one afternoon with Mayrhofer to visitSchubert. They found him reading Goethes ballad aloud and in anexcited manner. Suddenly he sat down and composed the musicas fast as he could write. Schubert then had no pianoforte. The Come in any time and try the new. Hallet & DavisPlayer Piano Perfect Action, Hallet & Davis control, allowing your ownrendering of your favorite music. Mechanical only in performing by thebellows which none save the greatartist can execute by hand. Your piano allowed on exchange We have the finest line of playerpianos in New England, and alwayshave several bargains on hand. Write for full information. New players, $550, $650, $750, and$850. None better. Established 1839 HALLET & DAVIS PIANO COMPA/NY 146 Boylston Street BOSTON 283 three went to the Convict, and there the song was^first sung, to thedeUght and the wonder of all present. vSpaun in 1817 sent to Goethemanuscript copies of Schuberts songs with a letter. Goethe nevermade answer. August Ritter von Crymnich, an amateur, was the first to sing Erl-king before a large audience. This was at a party at Sonnleithners,December i, 1820. In January of the next year he sang it at a meet-ing of a small music society, and a httle later Pettenkofen
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