by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Translation by Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963)
Oh, heavenly Poesy
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
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Authorship:
- by Louis MacNeice (1907 - 1963), no title, appears in Goethe's Faust, first published 1951
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in Faust, in Der Tragödie zweiter Teil (Part II)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mátyás György Seiber (1905 - 1960), "Invocation", published 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from To Poetry, no. 1
- by Mátyás György Seiber (1905 - 1960), "Epilogue", published 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from To Poetry, no. 5
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