Word: erlkoenig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit from the general tenor of modernity are the songs of Schubert on which Professor Hill will speak in the Music Building at noon today. Certainly they are not works of discords and cacophonies', perhaps they are even a bit over-sentimental. Yet it is a question whether the "Erlkoenig", and the "Serenade" will not still be sung when many of our modern writers are forgotten. For their work in letting in fresh air on an art which had grown somewhat state, the new tendencies must be that in and of themselves they are of themselves they are of permanent...
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