This character is first introduced as a child purchased from a theatre troupe and later decides to adopt after she performs an egg dance. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this character from Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship who later sings her namesake song, which opens with “Do you know the land where the lemons blossom?”
ANSWER: Mignon (“MIN-yawn”)
[10e] Mignon is a character created by this author of Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. This author, a pioneer of the Innerlichkeit style, had his poem “The Erl-King” set to music by Franz Schubert.
ANSWER: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[10m] The first published poetry collection of this fellow Innerlichkeit poet was his Book of Songs. This poet’s most famous poem describes a maiden who sits on a mountain and combs her hair with a golden brush.
ANSWER: Heinrich Heine (The poem is “Die Lorelei.”)
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