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style. The villa is still considered an adornment in the plane-tree-lined
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Bungert died, following a long illness, on 26 October 1915 in his house in Leutesdorf. As a Lutheran Christian he was not permitted (according to his own wishes) to be buried in the cemetery in staunchly Catholic Leutesdorf. His grave is in the cemetery of the
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Bungert was destitute in Paris, just managing to make ends meet by giving piano lessons, until his father grudgingly gave him a little emergency support. Although the Paris
Conservatorium was home to some celebrated musicians, such as
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His list of works includes 362 songs, many of which were based on texts by Carmen Sylva, while he wrote most of the words to his Rhine-songs himself. His greatest work was the operatic tetralogy "Die
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poetry to music and his Rhine-songs, which he often composed sitting at his regular table in the Rhine garden of the
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who were the judges of the competition. According to
Bungert, he composed the piece as he lay in bed feverish with appendicitis. The piano quartet was performed very successfully in
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