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From Hallein. A rare piece.
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It is played
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Iike a cello.
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Its common name is
leg viol or quinton.
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Recently, I found a painting
that exactly shows this instrument.
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Not this type of instrument. I mean,
specifically this instrument.
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The painting depicts
a concert of viole da gamba
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at the court of Duke Augustus
von Braunschweig-Wolfenbuttel.
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- Can I fetch you something?
- Not at all. Why?
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It's fascinating.
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Look at them.
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Do they give a fig
about the benefits of illness?
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Have you read Adorno
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on Schumann's Fantasia in C Major?
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He talks of his twilight.
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It's not Schumann bereft of reason,
but just before.
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A fraction before.
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He knows he's losing his mind.
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It torments him
but he clings on, one last time.
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It's being aware
of what it means to lose oneself
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before being completely abandoned.
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I'd say you are a good teacher.
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Thank you.
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You talk about things
as if they were yours. It's rare.
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And I think you know it.
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Schubert and Schumann
are my favourites, that's all.
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Since my father died
completely mad in Steinhof asylum,
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I can talk easily about the twilight
of the mind, can't I?
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If you'd really prefer not to eat,
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perhaps you'd care
for a drink of something?
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Go ahead.