by Franta Bass (1930 - 1944)
Translation © by Jeanne Němcová
The old house
Language: English after the Czech (Čeština)
Deserted here, the old house [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Jeanne Němcová , "The old house", 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 Franta Bass (1930 - 1944) [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), "The old house", 1996 [soprano and saxophone], from I Never Saw Another Butterfly, no. 6. [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2009-06-01
Line count: 9
Word count: 40