It’s my young, sweet Hansel, who loves me

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

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Mein junger frischer Hansel ist's der...

Language: German (Deutsch) after the English

Our translations: CAT ENG

Mein junger frischer Hansel ist's der mir gefällt!

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• R. Strauss

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Confirmed with Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, übersetzt von Karl Simrock, in: William Shakspear’s[sic] sämmtliche dramatische Werke in neuen Uebersetzungen, Leipzig: Georg Wigand’s Verlag, [no year], page 687

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.

Text Authorship:

by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Drittes Lied der Ophelia", op. 67 (Sechs Lieder), Heft 1 no. 3 (1918)

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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It’s my young, sweet Hansel, who loves...

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

It’s my young, sweet Hansel, who loves me.

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2019 by Laura Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876), appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet and misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2019-11-29
Line count: 1
Word count: 8