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Hölty was rather fond of the image of the bride's funeral wreath. We find it again ('die Totenkränze manches verstorbenen Mädchens') in Auftrag, a Hölty setting by Peter Cornelius (Op 5 No 6, 1861). The resonances of Schubert's little setting look to the past and show his debt to the heartfelt simplicities of the Berlin school and the songs of such composers as Reichardt, Schulz and Zelter.
from notes by Graham Johnson © 1993
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