Komm, wir wandeln zusammen Op4 No2 (1854)

Cornelius’s Komm, wir wandeln zusammen is also inspired by a kind of innocence, the innocence of love without a cloud on the moonlit horizon. The composer matches his own well chosen opening words with a lovely, fluttering melody that recurs throughout the song, twice in the vocal line and then, as the voice goes its own way in the closing section, in an ecstatic little rhapsody in the piano part. Clearly, though professionally attached to both Liszt and Wagner at different times, Cornelius had his own distinctive lyrical personality, both as a poet and a composer.