Rainer Maria Rilke
Arts & Ideas
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Composers Struggle With Translations
I think it may sound a little bat cleshad to say this, but composing is quite a solitary business. I think sometimes composers look for writers who seem to embody that idea of the isolated and inward person. It's one of those things that composers will always struggle with. You include the german text and english translation, and it was very nice to hear you there, sort of platting the two languages together. Because even that is very contested in inrilke. Not unusual fo the to be translations and schools of translations around literature.
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