sovay: (Rotwang)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] selenak 2018-01-24 09:44 am (UTC)

aka the Loreley song, originally written as an untitled poem by Heinrich Heine for his second poetry collection, Das Buch der Lieder. A composer named Friedrich Silcher then came up with an earworm of a melody for it, and it got enthusiastically sung as a folk song by Germans thereafter to this very day. Chances are that if you've ever heard a German folk song, it will be this one.

I learned it first as an art song, with credit to Heine, but I was definitely not in Germany at the time.

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