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From Answers.com: Dedicated...(more) to clarinetist Eduardo de Benedetti (who premiered it in Genoa that year), the piece is in many ways a miniature version of the massive clarinet Sequenza IXa from three years earlier. Like that work, it feels less built or composed than woven or plaited together. Likewise, it also makes the clarinet into a stage on which to perform its own collective memory; though, while the Sequenza was vividly evocative (of Brahms as of Klezmer and perhaps even the ancient shofar), Lied is more of a sketch, its physiognomy more abstract. And through its title, surely a nod to the nineteenth-century tradition of German art song, Berio also seems to suggest that Lied is an endeavor in finding language where there are no words, in inhabiting that brief and "miraculous" union between music and poetry whichBerio finds in Schubert's lieder.