by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Translation © by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The song
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
Deny yourself! You must yourself deny! That is the song . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
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Source: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd ed., 1979, Angela Partington, ed., Oxford University Press Inc, NY.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie erster Teil (Part I)
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), "The song", 1995, published 1999 [soprano and piano], from Goethe Songs I, no. 1, Bryn Mawr, Pa: T. Presser
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