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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:36:28 +0900
To: classics@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, JWvG

At 3:19 PM 99.8.28, David Lupher wrote:
> [...]
>
> Along these very lines, an Associated Press story by Tony Czuczka
> published in my local morning rag notes that "although a recent poll
> found 79 percent of Germans are proud of him, few actually could
> recite one of his poems [not even "Wandrers Nachtlied II"??] and less
> than a quarter have one of his works on their bookshelf."


There is one poem of JWG that (probably) almost all Germans learn as
a song in Kindergarten: "Sah ein Knab ein Roeslein steh`n". However, not
all may know that it was written by him, (and that the music was written
by F Schubert).

Best regards,
A Minaya


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