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Updated: June 11, 2025

It is plain that many of the lyric writers leaned on Schreiber, and the librettists could have done the same; or they could have derived their initial suggestion in more attractive form than that offered by Loeben. It seems, however, that Geibel knew Loeben's saga.

Allen Wilson Porterfield - Graf von Loeben and the Legend of Lorelei