Hoe herken ik mijn liefje

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by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Translation © by Lau Kanen

Erstes Lied der Ophelia

(Sung text for setting by R. Strauss)

See original

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: DUT FRE

Wie erkenn' ich mein Treulieb
Vor  ...  Andern nun?
An dem Muschelhut und Stab
Und den Sandalschuh'n?

Note: according to The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss, ed. by Charles Youmans, Seeger is listed as the translator of Hamlet, but Seeger's translations are quite different. Simrock and Seeger are listed together as the translators for the ten-volume set.

Composition:

Richard Georg Strauss

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet [an adaptation] and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Based on:

a text in English possibly by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618)
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DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , no title, copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 18

Eerste lied van Ophelia

(Sung text translation for setting by R. Strauss)

See original

Language: Dutch (Nederlands) after the German (Deutsch)

Hoe herken ik mijn liefje
Uit  ...  anderen?
Aan zijn mosselhoed en staf
En zijn sandalen?

Translation of title "Erstes Lied der Ophelia" = "Eerste lied van Ophelia"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet, first published 1868 and misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , appears in Hamlet [an adaptation] and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English possibly by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618)
- Go to the text page.

Go to the general single-text view

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-17
Line count: 4
Word count: 17