Robert Schumann: Ouverture zu Goethes Hermann und Dorothea op. 136: Orchestra:
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The overture was written in just five days in December 1851. The starting point for this composition was Schumann's desire to use Goethe's work of the same name as a basis for a singspiel. The Marseillaise that can be heard in the overture alludes to a scene of the epos.
