Die Heimkehr Vol. 2 (M. Schäfer) (2001)

De Oostenrijkse componist Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, oftewel Johann Hoven, zette 88 gedichten van Heinrich Heine op muziek. "Unlike Lachner, Vesque had an entirely Viennese career. He wrote his earlier songs under the name of Johann Hoven. People said he was claiming to be half a Beethoven, but the pseudonym is that of a family property in Alsace where the composer spent an idyllic childhood. He was a remarkably talented mana gifted tenor, an extraordinary linguist, and one of the most successful lawyers of the period. (...) As a composer he was a pupil of Sechter and Moscheles, but it was through Vogl, his singing teacher, that the twenty-five-year-old Vesque came into contact with Schubert in the last year of the composers life. He was present when singer and composer tried out new songs together; his impeccably kept diaries testify to, but never exaggerate, his link with Schubert."