Hast du ein Tongedicht vollbracht,
Nimm vor den Füchsen dich in Acht.
Denn solche Brüder Reinecke,
Die fressen dir das Deinige!1

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¹ Strauss: "Das Deinige! Die Brüder Reinecke!"

Text Authorship:

• by Alfred Kerr (1867 - 1948), no title [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Hast du ein Tongedicht vollbracht", op. 66 no. 5 (1918), from Krämerspiegel, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Quand tu as terminé un poème en musique", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Matthias Fletzberger

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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