Composer

B. Mehldau

8 works in the catalog — read each text with IPA transcriptions and translations.

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LIEDER · 8

Child, child

Because

Dreams

Your first word was light

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The hour is striking so close above me

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I love the dark hours of my being

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No one lives his life

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His caring is a nightmare to us

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Child, child

Because

Dreams

Your first word was light

seven-songs-from-rainer-maria-rilkesthe-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god

DE

The hour is striking so close above me

seven-songs-from-rainer-maria-rilkesthe-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god

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I love the dark hours of my being

seven-songs-from-rainer-maria-rilkesthe-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god

No one lives his life

seven-songs-from-rainer-maria-rilkesthe-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god

DE

His caring is a nightmare to us

seven-songs-from-rainer-maria-rilkesthe-book-of-hours-love-poems-to-god

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