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The manuscript of the song was cut into several pieces (for souvenirs) by Schubert's half-brother Hermann. Fortunately this vandalism could not destroy the musical unity of this extraordinary page. Seven years later Schubert was to compose a String Quartet in D minor (D810), a matching masterpiece of organic unity in which he used the song's ritornello as the basis for the Quartet's second movement variations, and where Death's theme in various subtle rhythmic metamorphoses is also the seed and starting point for the other movements.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1991
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