There are (at least) two bands called Novalis. The first one is the old German rock band, the second one a English neofolk band who now goes under the name of Novalis Deux. Novalis biography
During the mid-seventies, the Hamburg-based band Novalis established themselves as leaders in the field of German-language romantic rock. The quartet called itself Novalis after the most important German poet of early romanticism.

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