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 | | Notwithstanding the importance of his own poems that he set in his early songs, it was the Wunderhorn texts that inspired his vocal writing for a good dozen years. |
 | | Surprisingly, considering his interest in poetry, the anthology Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth's Magic Horn), compiled in 1805 by von Arnim and Brentano, only came to Mahler's attention in 1888. |
 | | But then the Wunderhorn folk anthology aroused the composer's already deep affinity for those things which filled its pages: the beauty of nature, the innocence of children, the standard Germanic mythical figures - ghosts, supernatural heroes, gnomes, and spirits - and for the myriad emotions covering the gamut from simple joy to profound despair. |
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