Songs
Die Drossel
(1877)
Die Drossel
Ich will ja nicht in Garten geh'n,Will liegen sommerlang,Hör ich die liebe Drossel nur,Die in dem Busche sang;Man fängt dem Kind die Drossel einIm Käfig sitzt sie dort,Doch singen will sie nicht und hängtIhr Köpfchen immerfort.Noch einmal blickt das Kind nach ihrMit bittendem GesichtDa schlägt die Drossel schön und hellDa glänzt sein Aug' und bricht!
The Thrush
‘I’ve no wish to enter the garden,I wish to lie here all summer long,If I can only hear the dear thrushThat sang in the undergrowth!’The thrush is captured for the child,There it is in the cage,But it has no wish to sing, and hangsIts little head without respite.Once more the child looks at itWith a pleading expression,Brightly and beautifully the thrush then sings,Its eyes gleam—and it dies.
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Composer
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is particularly well-known for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems.
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Poet
Johann Ludwig Uhland, was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.
He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry. Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for eight months to continue his studies of poetry; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, in the bureau of the minister of justice.
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Die Drossel
The Thrush
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Composer
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is particularly well-known for his operas, Lieder, and tone poems.
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Poet
Johann Ludwig Uhland, was a German poet, philologist and literary historian.
He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in medieval literature, especially old German and French poetry. Having graduated as a doctor of laws in 1810, he went to Paris for eight months to continue his studies of poetry; and from 1812 to 1814 he worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart, in the bureau of the minister of justice.
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