Songs
Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero
(1881)
Op.6 no.1
Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero
Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero,Doch an andres denkt mein Herz.Wenn du, muntres Ding, verständest Meine Qual und sie empfändest,Jeder Ton, den du entsendest,Würde klagen meinen Schmerz.Bei des Tanzes Drehn und NeigenSchlag’ ich wild den Takt zum Reigen, Dass nur die Gedanken schweigen,Die mich mahnen an den Schmerz.Ach, ihr Herrn, dann will im SchwingenOftmals mir die Brust zerspringen,Und zum Angstschrei wird mein Singen,Denn an andres denkt mein Herz.
Ring out, ring out, my tambourine
Ring out, ring out, my tambourine,Though my heart thinks of other things.If you, blithe instrument, could understandAnd feel my torment,Each one of your soundsWould bewail my grief.As the dance whirls and turns,I beat out wildly the dance’s rhythm,Simply in order to silence the thoughtsThat remind me of my grief.Ah, good sirs, while I whirl around,My heart often feels like breaking,And my song becomes a cry of anguish,For my heart thinks of other things.
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Composer
Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer, best remembered for his lieder and piano music.
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Poet
Emanuel von Geibel , German poet and playwright.
He was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor. He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology. In 1838 he accepted a tutorship at Athens, where he remained until 1840. In the same year he published, in conjunction with his friend Ernst Curtius, a volume of translations from Greek. His first poems were published in a volume entitled Zeitstimmen in 1841. In 1842 he entered the service of Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, with an annual stipend of 300 thalers; under whom he produced König Roderich (1843), a tragedy, König Sigurds Brautfahrt (1846), an epic, and Juniuslieder (1848), lyrics in a more spirited and manlier style than his early poems.
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Klinge, klinge, mein Pandero
Ring out, ring out, my tambourine
Composer
Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer, best remembered for his lieder and piano music.
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Poet
Emanuel von Geibel , German poet and playwright.
He was born at Lübeck, the son of a pastor. He was originally intended for his father's profession and studied at Bonn and Berlin, but his real interests lay not in theology but in classical and romance philology. In 1838 he accepted a tutorship at Athens, where he remained until 1840. In the same year he published, in conjunction with his friend Ernst Curtius, a volume of translations from Greek. His first poems were published in a volume entitled Zeitstimmen in 1841. In 1842 he entered the service of Frederick William IV, the king of Prussia, with an annual stipend of 300 thalers; under whom he produced König Roderich (1843), a tragedy, König Sigurds Brautfahrt (1846), an epic, and Juniuslieder (1848), lyrics in a more spirited and manlier style than his early poems.
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