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(1797-1828)

Who is Sylvia?-Op. 106, No.4 (D. 891)

(1826)

Text: William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Der Doppelganger (from Schwanengesang, D. 957)

Text: Heinrich Heine
How are the three poetic stanzas treated in "The Double," one of Schubert's last, and most powerful, songs?
Still is the night, the streets are calm,
In this house lived my treasure;
She long ago left this town,
But the house still stands in the same place.
There stands also a man, and stares into the heavens,
And wrings his hands for pain; I shudder when his face I see,
[For] the moon shows me my own features.
Thou double, thou pale companion!
Why do you ape the love-sorrows That tortured me in this place
50 many nights in times gone by?

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