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Hark, hark, the lark, beautifully set to music by +Schubert+, very little attention has been paid by important composers to the songs in _Cymbeline_. True, more than a dozen composers, dating from 1750 to the present day, have set those words, and also the exquisite lyric
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Fear no more the heat of the sun, but with indifferent success. An interesting story {20} of the composition of
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Hark, hark, the lark, by Schubert, is told by the composer's old friend Doppler.
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Returning from a Sunday stroll with some friends through the village of Währing, he (Schubert) saw a friend sitting at a table in the beer-garden of one of the taverns. The friend, when they joined him, had a volume of Shakespeare on the table. Schubert seized it and began to read; but, before he had turned over many pages, pointed to 'Hark, hark, the lark,' and exclaimed, 'Such a lovely melody has come into my head, if I had but some music paper.' Someone drew a few staves on the back of the bill of fare; and there, amid the hubbub of the beer-garden, that beautiful song, so perfectly fitting the words, so skilful and happy in its accompaniment, came into perfect existence. Two other songs probably followed the same evening: the drinking-song from _Antony and Cleopatra_, marked
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Währing, July 26,