Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poems
by Morike, Eduard; Luke, David; Luke, David; Luke, DavidFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-30
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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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 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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