Among the women for whom Schubert sighed) the aweer young "Comtesse Caroline" appears, bow:
fever, to, have occupied. only Sccondary place. Therese Grab, for shorn he composed and "Salve Regina"—I have been lost—and no doubt a number of other songs, kindled in breast, a more enduring emotion, but here, as in many another episode of his life, poverty stood in his way and the unromantic. Therese, unaware that she was imperilling her chances of immortality, married a baker.
Of the other women who stand out in Schubert's life, one likes to remember the three sisters Frohlich, and particularly Anna, for whom he composed "The Song of Miriam" and the "Serenade," which he completed on his deathbed. In the latter years of his life, Schubert fell into bad company and bad ways, and for two years he kept away from the Frohlich house. The story of his return is preserved in a record by Kithi Frohlich. "One day," it says, "I met him in the street, and when he greeted me I gave him a significant side-glance, Severe, reproachful. He looked at me bashfully, very shyly. I hall never forget his conscience-stricken appearance. He made his excuses. for not having been to see us for so long, and I felt it was my duty to lecture him severely, and to tell him that his conduct and manner of living wore not creditable. He promised me to make amends.
"A few days later there was a knock at the door. I was sitting at my window as usual, Tt was our: ong-missing Schubert. He open the door a little, and, pushing hi head through, "said:—"Friulein Kathi, may I come in?" "Since when, then, is our house so strange to you? 'I asked. "You know very well that it has always been open to you." "Yes," he answered, "bat Tam a little timid. T have not forgotten that look you gave me in the afreet."
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