None but the Lonely Heart

Richard Sylvester RSYLVESTER at CENTER.COLGATE.EDU
Wed Jan 29 03:33:37 UTC 1997


I have two questions on the song of this title by
Tchaikovsky, his op 6 no 6, known in Russian as
"Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal", which is in turn a translation
of Goethe's "Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt".

Does anyone know the source of the English title to the
song --i.e., who came up with the phrase "None but the
lonely heart"? The name of a translator? a date?

Second, has anyone seen the 1944 film with Cary Grant and
Ethel Barrymore by the same title? I know that the story has
nothing to do with Tchaikovsky, but what I wonder about is the
musical score--reviews I have read mention the score as
"symphonic" and I wonder if it uses Tchaikovsky's music at all,
and in particular this song?

Richard Sylvester
(rsylvester at center.colgate.edu)



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