Let's hear no more about it!

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Da wird nicht mehr nachgefragt!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG FRE ITA

Da wird nicht mehr nachgefragt!
Wein ist ernstlich untersagt.
Soll denn doch getrunken sein,
Trinke nur vom besten Wein!
Doppelt wärest du ein Ketzer
In Verdammnis um den Krätzer.

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Text Authorship:

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 9. Das Schenkenbuch -- Saki Nameh [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Trunken müssen wir alle sein", 1889, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 35, Mainz, Schott
by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Trunken müssen wir alle sein", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ]

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 6
Word count: 29

Let's hear no more about it!

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Let's hear no more about it!
Wine is seriously forbidden.
So if we are going to get drunk
Let's drink only the best wine!
You would be a double heretic
to be damned for drinking plonk.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 9. Das Schenkenbuch -- Saki Nameh
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This text was added to the website: 2006-03-01
Line count: 6
Word count: 36