Songs

A number of Franz Schubert's songs, originally for voice with piano accompaniment, were arranged by other composers. For example, his "highly charged" and "graphic" song "Erlkönig" ("The Erl King") has a piano introduction that conveys "unflagging energy" from the start.

The arrangement of this song by Hector Berlioz uses strings to convey faithfully the driving urgency and threatening

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