Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poems

by Morike, Eduard; Luke, David; Luke, David; Luke, David

• ISBN13: 9780140447378
• ISBN10: 0140447377
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Mozart and his charming young wife Constanza are en route to Prague for the opening of Don Giovanni when the composer absent-mindedly wanders into the garden of a noble Bohemian family and finds himself the unwitting guest of honour at their daughter's wedding. This delightfully high-spirited novella paints an unforgettable picture of Mozart's creative genius - its playful heights and its terrible depths. Morike's own lyrical powers are also displayed in his poetry, and this selection includes his most popular romantic and classical folk and fairy-tale poems, among them the comic idyll 'The Auld Weathercock'. The only dual-language version of the poetry available in paperback, this volume also includes an appendix on Morike and Hugo Wolf, who set Morike's poems to music.

Author Biography

Eduard M+¦rike (1804-û1875) was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, and was a Protestant pastor before teaching literature at a seminary in Stuttgart.

David Luke is an emeritus fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. His translations of Goethe-'s Selected Verse and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm-'s Selected Tales are published by Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Text
Mozart's Journey to Prague (1855)	p. 1
On a Winter Morning before Sunrise	p. 67
Peregrina I-V	p. 69
Two Voices in the Night	p. 77
At Midnight	p. 79
In the Early Morning	p. 79
A Journey on Foot	p. 81
Intimation of Spring	p. 81
In the Spring	p. 83
Urach Revisited	p. 85
Love Insatiable	p. 91
The Forsaken Girl/The Forsaken Lassie	p. 91
To My Beloved	p. 93
The Song of Weyla	p. 95
Seclusion	p. 95
To an Aeolian Harp	p. 97
News from the Storks	p. 99
A Huntsman's Song	p. 101
Sweet-Rohtraut	p. 101
Good Riddance	p. 103
A Prayer	p. 107
Johann Kepler	p. 107
To Sleep	p. 109
At Daybreak	p. 109
The Tale of the Safe and Sound Man	p. 111
The Woodland Pest	p. 137
To the Nightingale	p. 139
To a Christmas Rose	p. 141
The Beautiful Beech-Tree	p. 143
Divine Remembrance	p. 145
A Walk in the Country	p. 147
The Falls of the Rhine	p. 149
An Edifying Meditation	p. 151
Inscription on a Clock with the Three Hour-Goddesses	p. 153
On a Lamp	p. 155
The Auld Steeplecock	p. 155
Oh soul, remember!	p. 173
A Domestic Scene	p. 173
A Visit to the Carthusians	p. 183
Erinna to Sappho	p. 191
Postscript: Morike and Hugo Wolf	p. 195
Notes	p. 205
Title Index of Poems	p. 215
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