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FRANZ SCHUBERT Sehnsucht D 636 Nachtstück D 672 Der Pilgrim D 794 Auf dem Wasser zu singen D 774 Der Zwerg D 771 Die Sterne D 939 and other songs María Cristina Kiehr soprano Pablo Márquez romantic guitar Last year, two internationally renowned artists originally from Argentina – soprano María Cristina Kiehr and guitarist Pablo Márquez – recorded and released the interpretatively unique and dramaturgically groundbreaking album Sehnsucht, in which they included songs by Franz Schubert with authentic guitar accompaniment from the period. In Schubert's time, it was common for songs with piano accompaniment to be published with alternative guitar accompaniment, often within the same edition. Schubert was no exception – during his lifetime, thirty-four of his songs were published in this way, to which another eighteen were added in the five years after the composer's death. Guitar arrangements of these accompaniments were often the work of the publishers themselves, either because they were guitarists, as was the case with Diabelli, or because they commissioned the arrangements from experts on the instrument. Today we know of about seventy Schubert songs with arranged guitar accompaniments, which have been largely neglected until now and whose historical significance we are only beginning to discover and understand.