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X. Winter

by Alban Berg From Jugendlieder

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X. Winter
German source: Johannes Schlaf

Der schönste Cherub kommt;
mit weitweißen sanften Schwingen
schimmert er durchs Dunkel:
kalt, starr und schaurig und süß
wie der Wille Gottes,
heimatliederumraunt.

Composer

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos,…

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