"One September morning in 1824, Countess von Esterhazy invited Maestro Schubert, during the breakfast we were all having together, to set a poem she liked very much to music for our four voices: that poem was Gebet. Schubert read it, smiled as he usually did when something pleased him, took the book and immediately went away to compose. By the evening of the same day we had the manuscript and were already rehearsing the newly finished Lied at the piano" (Karl, Baron of Schoenstein)
Damrau, Kirchschlager, Bostridge & Maltman sing Schubert's "Gebet"
Truly things from other times... beautiful!
