Bert Berns
The Kindertotenlieder ( Songs on the death of the children ) are a collection of four hundred and sixty Poème S of Friedrich Rückert, written after the death of two of his/her children.
On this subject, the American scientist Stephen Jay Gould warns to us against the Mythe of the Golden age: I do not think that the pain can never be appreciably attenuated by preliminary knowledge of statistical inevitability - and on this only basis, I would not exchange even the corridors of the subway of New York against a life behind this plow…
The type-setter Gustav Mahler has put five of these poems in music.
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