Rapunzel in Music
The first two movements of Schumann's Märchenbilder depict scenes from the story (source: section of Schumann's journals "hard to find and not translated into English". Gerhard Schmidt, who taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the City of London School for Girls, had access to a copy of this section before he left Austria for the UK).
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