Vasily Grossman & Beethoven/Irish song

[Simon Beattie]

Thanks, Alexandra.  I'm no Beethoven expert, and I don't know the original texts which he set.

Simon

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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alexandra Smith
Sent: 28 July 2011 10:54
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Vasily Grossman & Beethoven/Irish song

Dear Simon,

Beethoven created at least 57 compositions in the style of Irish  
songs. Needless to say, the Russian version refers to the Irish cycles  
since it's called The Irish party song.
As far as I can judge, the Russian version described in Grossman's  
text uses the melody of one of the Irish songs created by Beethoven  
but the words are different from the Irish (English language) text.

All best,
Alexandra



Quoting Simon Beattie <Simon at SIMONBEATTIE.CO.UK> on Thu, 28 Jul 2011  
08:32:25 +0100:

> Is it one of the "Irische Lieder", perhaps?  Beethoven set quite a few.
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> Simon
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