Schubertiade Hohenems: here is a question for all Schubert Lied lovers. Is this song, Klage, written by Schubert? It belongs to the collection of songs known as the Therese Grob Songbook, a collection of 17 songs, originally possessed by the Grob family, and still in private ownership - in Switzerland. Sixteen of the seventeen songs are definitely by Schubert. But what of the seventeenth song? And, if not by Schubert, by whom, and why? By Therese Grob herself? The text for 'Klage' is a reworking of the text of another song in the Therese Grob collection, that of Der Leidende D432. The hand of the manuscript copy is certainly not Schubert's and contains errors of writing which a professional composer like Schubert would not have made. But could it be a copy of an original Schubert manuscript, made - say - by Therese? Or it could be an agonising answer, on Therese's part, to the Schubert of Der Leidende? Therese Grob and Schubert knew one another since childhood. She was a gif! ted singer and gave first performances, as soprano soloist, of many of Schubert's early choral works, among others. Most probably, early songs like Gretchen am Spinnrade would have first been performed by her. Some scholars believe that there was a romantic friendship between the two, in their teens, even that at one point Schubert might have considered marriage with Therese. Nothing came of any possible marriage plans and it has been proposed by scholars that Schubert, perhaps breaking off the
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