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Schubert was eighteen years old when he composed the song erlkönig, set to a poem by

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poem was about an innocent child being attacked and eventually killed by some sort of mythical creature, something like a fairy king. Schubert took the events of the poem and set them to music. Many others did too, but Schubert's is the most famous.
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