I am drawn to the music of the nineteenth century. Schumann set much German poetry to music, and I was delighted to come across an old songbook collection at Wolf’s home in Berlin. Poems by Schiller, Heine, Goethe and others all collected here, including “Wanderlied.”
In Berlin I also encountered King Wilhelm I, formerly Prince Wilhelm, who came to Freinsheim to suppress the 1848 revolution. That was one cold dude.
Finally, I share the Swiss symbolist Arnold Boecklin’s painting called “Isle of the Dead” on view at the Berlin Bodemuseum. Wolf says this painting has been known to emerge in the imaginations of patients during psychoanalysis.
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