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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund

Improvisation
 (Sung text for setting by R. Liebermann)
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Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Chinese (中文) 
Our translations:  ENG
Die Libelle schwebt zitternd und schillernd über dem Teich.
Der liegt glatt und regungslos. –
So bebt mein Herz
An deinem Herzen.

Composition:

    Set to music by Rolf Liebermann (1910 - 1999), "Improvisation", 1945, from Chinesische Liebeslieder, no. 4

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund, no title, appears in Chinesische Gedichte

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Improvisation", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: John Glenn Paton [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-02-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 22

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