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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Perhaps We Can Help

Terry Teachout has a little list of things he's never done. I say he really should give a few of those things a whirl, and I'd be happy to help out.

P. S. And here's no. 11 on that list: he's never studied German. Der Ring des Nibelungen means "The Nibelung's Ring," not "The Ring of the Nibelungs."
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2 comments:

  1. AddisonSeptember 9, 2007 at 6:02:00 PM PDT

    According to "Knoch's Opera Guide: Two Hundred and Fifty Descriptions of Celebrated Operas with Short Biographies of their Composers," published in Vienna between 1919 and 1924, Wagner's tetralogy is "The Ring of the Nibelungs."

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  2. Lisa HirschSeptember 9, 2007 at 9:21:00 PM PDT

    That is a mistranslation. Look at any translation of the Ring into English.

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