Songs
Lied des transferierten Zettel
by Hugo Wolf From Vier Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron (1897)
This song was recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival as part of Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs on Stone Records.
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Lied des transferierten Zettel
German source:
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Der Spatz, der Zeisig fein,
Die Lerche, die sich lustig schwingt
Bis in den Himmel ’nein.
Der Kuckuck, der der Grasemück’,
So gern ins Nestchen heckt,
Und lacht darob mit arger Tück,
Und manchen Eh’mann neckt.
Song of the ousel cock
English translation ©
William Shakespeare
With orange-tawny bill,
The throstle with his note so true,
The wren with little quill.
The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,
The plain-song cuckoo grey,
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
And dares not answer nay.
Lied des transferierten Zettel
German source:
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Song of the ousel cock
English source:
William Shakespeare
Die Schwalbe, die den Sommer bringt,
The ousel cock, so black of hue,
Der Spatz, der Zeisig fein,
With orange-tawny bill,
Die Lerche, die sich lustig schwingt
The throstle with his note so true,
Bis in den Himmel ’nein.
The wren with little quill.
Der Kuckuck, der der Grasemück’,
The finch, the sparrow, and the lark,
So gern ins Nestchen heckt,
The plain-song cuckoo grey,
Und lacht darob mit arger Tück,
Whose note full many a man doth mark,
Und manchen Eh’mann neckt.
And dares not answer nay.
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of Jena Romanticism along with his brother Friedrich Schlegel. His translations of Shakespeare made the English…