by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Lied vom Weidenbaum
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English
Die Arme, am Lebensbaum seufzte sie
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Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), appears in The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act IV scene 3 [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Middle English from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Willow song", first published 1583
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Wolfgang Fortner (1907 - 1987), "Lied vom Weidenbaum", 1946, from Songs nach Texten von William Shakespeare
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- Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Edvard Lembcke (1815 - 1897) ; composed by Peter Arnold Heise.
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- Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Percy Aldridge Grainger.
- Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Peter Warlock.
- Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Edmund Horace Fellowes.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Pierre Letourneur (1736 - 1788) [an adaptation] ; composed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maria Szymanowska, Julien Tiersot.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Jean-François Ducis (1733 - 1816) , "Romance du saule" [an adaptation] ; composed by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Julien Tiersot.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Henri Bassis (1916 - 1992) , copyright © ; composed by Joseph Kosma.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Carl Loewe.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Wilhelm Petersen.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Johann Michael Vogl (1768 - 1840); composed by Johann Michael Vogl.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Georg Mantey ; composed by Wolfgang Fortner.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hermann Wichmann.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Lied der Desdemona", subtitle: "Aus dem Französischen", appears in Stimmen der Völker in Liedern, no. 62, first published c1800 ; composed by Adolf Jensen, Mathilde Kralik.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890 - 1960) ; composed by Georgiy Vasil'yevich Sviridov.
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