Silcher, F.

Japanese: Silcher,F.(英語表記)SilcherF
Silcher, F.

...The legend of the water nymph Lorelei, who lived here and seduced sailors with her singing voice (echo), is a legendary figment of poets' imaginations. Since the Romantic poet C. Brentano gave this name to a beautiful maiden who seduces and ruins men in his narrative poem Lorelei (1801), poets have often taken up and developed this subject. In particular, Heine's poem Lorelei (1823 or 1824) has become widely loved like a folk song thanks to the composition by Friedrich Silcher (1789-1860), and in Japan it is loved for its translation by Kondo Sakufu, which begins with "Najika wa shiranaedo kokoro wabi te (I am sad about the reason)." [Hashimoto Ikuo]...

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Japanese:

…またここに住み,歌声(エコー)で舟人を誘惑したという水の精ローレライの〈伝説〉は詩人の空想が伝説化したもので,ロマン派の詩人C.ブレンターノが物語詩《ローレ・ライ》(1801)の中で,男たちを魅惑して破滅させる美しい乙女にこの名を与えて以来,詩人たちはしばしばこの題材を採り上げて発展させた。とりわけハイネの詩《ローレライ》(1823あるいは1824)はジルヒャーFriedrich Silcher(1789‐1860)の作曲によって民謡のように広く親しまれ,日本でも〈なじかは知らねど心侘(わ)びて〉で始まる近藤朔風(さくふう)の訳詞で愛唱されている。【橋本 郁雄】。…

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