intended both for the concert as well as a meditative element during a musical service or other ceremony

This is what the composer writes about the songs: "While I was reading up on sonnets by Petrarch and Shakespeare

In all his poems this refers to an amorous setting and suggests that Celan is most likely talking about a person he loved

See also Handy 2 and Piano Puzzle 2

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