by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Jeanne Němcová
Birdsong
Language: English  after the Czech (Čeština)
He doesn't know the world at all [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by Jeanne Němcová , "Birdsong", appears in I Never Saw Another Butterfly, New York, Schocken, first published 1978, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Czech (Čeština) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , written 1941 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Lori Laitman (b. 1955), "Birdsong", 1996 [soprano and saxophone], from I Never Saw Another Butterfly, no. 3. [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2009-06-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 107