Author : Josef von Eichendorff
Publisher : Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781602644267
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)
Book Synopsis The Durande Castle by : Josef von Eichendorff
Download or read book The Durande Castle written by Josef von Eichendorff and published by Virtualbookworm.com Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Edward Ford translates into English many of the poems and one tale by the nineteenth century German writer Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff. His achievement is to have brought to readers' attention the beauties of important poetry not widely known in the United States at the present time. Many of these poems have been set to music by composers as distinguished as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Richard Strauss. The musical setting of Eichendorff's poems, "In einem khlen Grunde," by an obscure Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Glck, has become so familiar to present-day Germans that it is often mistakenly listed as a "folk song" in catalogues. Eichendorff's poems are culturally so central to the German lyric tradition that they deserve to be better known in English.