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The English lyrics are not a direct translation of the German; the original lyrics take advantage of a pair of German homophones: when conjugated in the second person singular form (i.e. "you"), the verbs haben (to have) and hassen (to hate) become respectively du hast and du hasst, which sound identical.
Eleven Chorale Preludes, Op. 122, is a collection of works for organ by Johannes Brahms, written in 1896, at the end of the composer's life, immediately after the death of his beloved friend, Clara Schumann, published posthumously in 1902. [ 1] They are based on verses of nine Lutheran chorales, two of them set twice, and are relatively short ...
1863. ( 1863) (English) " Praise to the Lord, the Almighty " is a Christian hymn based on Joachim Neander 's German-language hymn " Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren ", published in 1680. [ 2] John Julian in his A Dictionary of Hymnology calls the German original "a magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest creation ...
Sheet music with Franz Lehár's inscription to Richard Tauber, August 1929. " Yours Is My Heart Alone " or " You Are My Heart's Delight " (German: " Dein ist mein ganzes Herz ") is an aria from the 1929 operetta The Land of Smiles ( Das Land des Lächelns) with music by Franz Lehár and the libretto by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Ludwig Herzer [ de].
See media help. " Tantum ergo " is the incipit of the last two verses of Pange lingua, a Medieval Latin hymn composed by St Thomas Aquinas circa A.D. 1264. The "Genitori genitoque" and "Procedenti ab utroque" portions are adapted from Adam of Saint Victor 's sequence for Pentecost. [ 1] The hymn's Latin incipit literally translates to ...
The Nunc dimittis[ 1] ( English: / nʊŋk dɪˈmɪtɪs / ), also known as the Song of Simeon or the Canticle of Simeon, is a canticle taken from the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 29 through 32. Its Latin name comes from its incipit, the opening words, of the Vulgate translation of the passage, meaning "Now you let depart". [ 2]
Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night ), Op. 4, is a string sextet in one movement composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1899. Composed in just three weeks, it is considered his earliest important work. [ 1] It was inspired by Richard Dehmel 's poem of the same name and by Schoenberg's strong feelings upon meeting his future wife Mathilde Zemlinsky ...
The Deutsche Messe (German Mass), D 872, is a hymn-cycle by Franz Schubert written in 1827. Neither a Mass nor strictly speaking German, it was published in Vienna as what it is: Gesänge zur Feier des heiligen Opfers der Messe (Hymns for the Celebration of the Holy Offering of Mass). It sets a sequence of eight non-liturgical German poems by ...