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Did you know? Schubert’s Maiden and the Death derives its name from the lied Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531, based on a poem by Matthias Claudius that Schubert wrote 7 years earlier, in 1817. Originally, death was a kind and gentle welcome for the sick girl who was about to die.