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"Morgen!" ("Tomorrow!") is the last in a set of four songs composed in 1894 by the German composer Richard Strauss.It is designated Opus 27, Number 4.. The text of this Lied, the German love poem "Morgen!", was written by Strauss's contemporary, John Henry Mackay, who was of partly Scottish descent but brought up in Germany.
Each stanza ends with a refrain of 2 lines which are repeated: "Und bis wir uns wieder sehen, halte Gott dich fest in seiner Hand" (And until we see each other again, may God hold you tight in his hand). [3] [4] The melody is not inspired by Irish models but Pytlik's invention. [1] Set in F major and common time, it features many lively eighth ...
In 1964, Petula Clark recorded the English rendition Thank you, which was released as a single in the UK. "Danke für diesen guten Morgen" has been included in the hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 334. [1] "Danke" has been called the best-known German sacred song, according to Jörg Döring who analyzed its rhetoric. [1]
It was not until 2001 that Das alte Haus was released on the comprehensive compilation Stationen: Von heute bis morgen released in 2001. Further successes came to York in the German Airplay charts from 1976 with Gib dem Glück eine Chance (1976), Ein Mann wie du (1977) and Ein Lied für Maria (1978) as well as the two top 10 hits Ein Adler kann ...
"Der Mond ist aufgegangen" (German for "The moon has risen") is a German lullaby and evening song by Matthias Claudius, one of the most popular in German literature. Also known under the name Abendlied (German for "evening song") it was first released in Musen-Almanach in 1779, published by Johann Heinrich Voß . [ 1 ]
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
" Auf dem Wasser zu singen" (To sing on the water), D. 774, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert in 1823, based on the poem of the same name by Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg. [ 1 ] The text describes a scene on the water from the perspective of the narrator who is in a boat, and delves into the narrator's reflections on the passing of ...
Schließe mir die Augen beide" is a poem by Theodor Storm from his 1851 collection Sommergeschichten und Lieder (Summer Stories and Songs). [1] Helene Nahowski (1910), by Arnold Schoenberg. It was twice set to music by Alban Berg. Berg composed his first setting in 1907, dedicating it to his future wife, Helene Nahowski .