© by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Translation © by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972)
Our own death is unimaginable
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Our own death is unimaginable; and when we try to imagine it [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Paul Goodman (1911 - 1972), appears in Empire City, first published 1964, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), no title, copyright ©
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ned Rorem (1923 - 2022), "Our own death is unimaginable", 1954-1955 [ soprano, SATB chorus, and orchestra ], from The Poet's Requiem, no. 5, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
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