@ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe But anyway, poor guy met a terrible end, seeing things and hearing voices and terrified. 🙁

But the Erl King (from years earlier) is a pretty amazing song. I mean, it’s basically a horror story set to music:

https://t.co/mh4b9ypOke @ArchivistsAlley @JustinHowe “A week into his musical hallucinations, Schumann began experiencing a new, more bewildering phenomenon—he began hallucinating ghosts who dictated music to him. According to Becker, Schumann believed the spirit of Franz Schubert came to him one night and gave him a melody”

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