Songs
Als die alte Mutter
(1880)
Op. 55
Part of a series or song cycle:
Zigeunermelodien (Op. 55)
Als die alte Mutter
Als die alte Mutter mich noch lehrte singen,
sonderbar, daß Tränen ihr am Auge hingen.
Jetzt die braunen Wangen netzen mir die Zähren,
wenn ich will die Kinder Sang und Spielen lehren!
When my old mother
When my old mother taught me songs to sing,
Tears would well strangely in her eyes.
Now my brown cheeks are wet with tears,
When I teach the children how to sing and play!
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Composer
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer, one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.
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