Footnotes to "Night Music"

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The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy

"... in some perfect refrain like the man who wrote Danny Boy
No one knows who wrote the Irish traditional Danny Boy. We only know that the words were written by Frederick Weatherly.

"... with Shakespeare and Bach ...
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English dramatist and poet who is generally considered the greatest English playwright of all time.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer whose music epitomises the Baroque polyphonic style.