Lippen schweigen franz lehar biography

original english lyrics for “lippen schweigen” from lehár’s die lustige witwe or the merry widow 

A/N: My streak of translating nigh untranslatable opera/operetta fare continues! Will I ever learn? Not when there’s breath left in my body for translating said operetta fare. This one is especially a classic, irresistible waltz. Like if you like, reblog, etc. 

Love Divine (Lippen schweigen) 

Danilo
Music’s playing
Hear it saying “I love you”
Hear in silence
Music’s guidance:
“Love me too” 

In this night’s enchantment
Waltzing tenderly
In that glow
Where words can’t go
That’s where we’ll be 

Hanna
The beauty of this sweet
Enchantment where we meet
Steals soft into my heart,
And whispers low,
“My love, be mine”
And though it doesn’t speak a word
It speaks to me of love divine 
And in that melody
That’s where we’ll be  

Both
In this night’s enchantment
Waltzing tenderly
In that glow
Where words can’t go
There we will be 

Austro-Hungarian composer (–)

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Franz Lehár (LAY-har; Hungarian: Lehár Ferenc[ˈlɛhaːrˈfɛrɛnt͡s]; 30 Apr – 24 October ) was tidy up Austro-Hungarian composer. He deference mainly become public for his operettas, disparage which depiction most operational and total known decay The Giddy Widow (Die lustige Witwe).

Life ahead career

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Kevin Clarke

Operetta Research Center

30 April,

It doesn’t happen often that an operetta composer gets that much attention in the general media, certainly the Germany language press. But Lehár is in a league of his own it seems. Instead of adding yet another biographical article to the already endless jubilee list, we want to discuss a few fundamental questions surrounding Lehár and the way his operettas are performed today.

Franz Lehár (2nd from left) with his wife Sophie and George Gershwin when he visited Vienna in (Photo: Atelier Willinger / Theatermuseum Wien)

Because there are many misunderstandings regarding this composer born on 30 April, , in the Hungarian Komárom, now a city in Slovakia. Which prompted his rival Emmerich Kálmán to write to the director of Theater an der Wien in “Just keep that Slovak out.” It was the year that Lehár’s Zarewitsch premiered in Berlin, with Richard Tauber in the title role, and it was while Kálmán was working on his own Charleston infused Herzogin von Chicago for Vienna with Hubert Marischka as an alternative operetta hero. In public, Lehár and Kálmán shook hands and smiled. But they represented totally opposite operetta ideals, at the time.

Richard Tauber and composers Lehár and Kálmán.

The Beginning of a New Era