Schubert and the Beatles - The Same Spinning Wheel?

The Art- Song (a narrative for voice) was brought to prominence by a 17 year-old wonder; the Austrian composer Franz Schubert, in his "Gretchen Am Spinnrade." In one song, Schubert firmly establishes this form for the ages.
A century and a half later, in a totally different culture, and in a totally different place, the Beatles give us "Eleanor Rigby."
Both songs contain the same dark hues, haunting melodies and a sense of foreboding emanating from stark loneliness, love unfulfilled and hopelessness.
Gretchen, as she sat spinning in her bleak little room becomes, in the following century, Eleanor Rigby.
I would doubt, although it is speculation on my part, that the Beatles knew very much, if anything about the composer of the first "Eleanor Rigby."
Perhaps it is simply another example of the artist posing another of countless examples of the representation of human emotion for the sake of its existence, and nothing more.