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What singular event inspired, one morning in July 1822, the enigmatic lines that the young composer
Franz Schubert
put down on paper... And that his brother
Ferdinand
later revealed under the title "
My dream
", after having found it in the personal belongings of his deceased younger brother?
In a mysterious mixture of poetic dazzling and neatly styled literary acting, the musician recounts a very strange memory, resembling a metaphysical tale.
The story of years of wandering.
Of dull pain and deep loneliness.
Driven by his rejection, twice, of the family home.
Why ?
Not having been able to taste the pleasures and joys of a certain secret garden, which his father cultivated with passion.
“And for the second time I turned my steps aside, and, my heart filled with infinite love for those who disdained it, I wandered again in a distant country.
For long, very long years, I sang lieder.
When i wanted…
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