by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901)
Translation by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904)
Schön' Tinchen und Melinchen
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English
Schön' Tinchen und Melinchen haben nagelneue Schuh', drum kehren so stolz sie uns den Rücken zu! Doch knarren die Schuhe so laut in die Welt, am Ende hat der Schuster noch gar nicht sein Geld!
Authorship:
- by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901), no title, appears in Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, first published 1879 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ernst Frank (1847 - 1889), "Schön' Tinchen und Melinchen", op. 16 no. 2, published 1882 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], from Fünf Duette aus "Am Fenster" in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway für Sopran und Alt mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-30
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