Unser größter Dichter ist selbst schon Musik, wie es auch Goethe war, nur hatte Italien leider niemals einen Schubert oder Wolf… ###>Has anyone ever stopped to think why no Italian composer ever thought of setting a poem by Giacomo Leopardi to music? The texts of our nation’s greatest poet were already music in themselves, just like those of Goethe. Unfortunately, Italy never had a Franz Schubert or a Hugo Wolf to fulfill the task…