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Re: Dark Music
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Mikael Rasmusson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:10:17 -0000
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Eric Kisch writes:

>Another work that peers into the dark night of the human soul is Schubert's
>"Winterreise."

"the dark night of the human soul" can easily be detected in Liszt
"Funerailles" and of course in many late Lisztian piano pieces written
during the 1880s.  One biographer defined it as "Impotent music"...

Mikael Rasmusson

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