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Light
Language: English
Light! More light! Open that light so that more, more light . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Note: this is a translation of Goethe's purported final words, "Mehr Licht!" (sometimes quoted instead as "Mehr nicht!")
Source: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd ed., 1979, Angela Partington, ed., Oxford University Press Inc, NY.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, 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 Ralph Shapey (1921 - 2002), "Light", 1995, published 1999 [soprano and piano], from Goethe Songs II, no. 4, Bryn Mawr, Pa: T. Presser
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