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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 ...
A number of German syllable words have made it into English usage, such as Adidas, from company founder Adi Dassler, and Gestapo for Geheime StaatsPolizei (Secret State Police). Although used and pronounced as words in their own right, according to Helmut Glück they are classified as acronyms.
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 ...
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 ...
D 164, Song "Liebesrausch" ['Glanz des Guten und des Schönen strahlt mir dein hohes Bild'] for voice and piano (1815, 1st setting; fragment) D 165, Song "Sängers Morgenlied" ['Süßes Licht! aus goldenen Pforten'] for voice and piano (1815, 2nd setting) D 166, Song "Amphiaraos" ['Vor Thebens siebenfach gähnenden Toren'] for voice and piano ...
Die Verwendung zweier Buchstaben für einen Laut ist nur ein Notbehelf, der aufhören muss, sobald ein geeigneter Druckbuchstabe für das große ß geschaffen ist. [ 41 ] The use of two letters for a single phoneme is makeshift, to be abandoned as soon as a suitable type for the capital ß has been developed.
" 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 ...