Trouts, puppies and prayers
Since a couple of months, my husband and I have got this new washer and dryer set from Samsung. When purchasing we didn't know that the machines play little tunes when their cycles are finished. After having heard it a couple of hundred times I realized that the tune felt familiar to me - no, it hadn't start feeling familiar. To figure out what piece it might be, I started listening more mindfully to the tune. Like a loopy laundry lady I would stand humming the tune while my machine announced it had finished its task. Finally, my mind had connected some dots: It had to be something by Franz Shubert. Unfortunately I could piece together which one it was so I had to throw my towel in the ring and look it up online. It turned out to be Die Forelle by Franz Shubert (1817). The song was inspired by the poem of the same name written by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (1783). Franz Shubert edited the text a bit and added music to it. It seems the song was also the basis for the t