Talk:Totentanz (Distler)

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Hey, I don't know what this means:

At age 26, Distler chose as a text for 14 choral sections stanzas from the Baroque poem Der Cherubinische Wandersmann (The Cherubinic Pilgrim) by Angelus Silesius.[1] The spoken poems connecting them were written by Johannes Klöcking [de], an acquaintance of the composer.

Could this be written

In 1934 Distler, then age 26, chose stanzas from the Baroque poem Der Cherubinische Wandersmann by Angelus Silesius and used them as text for 14 choral sections. The spoken poems connecting the choral sections were written by etc. ?

--valereee (talk) 19:24, 21 November 2019 (UTC) reping correctly --valereee (talk) 19:25, 21 November 2019 (UTC)


 * yes --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:35, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Nor this:
They are a paraphrase of a partly extant poetry known as the Lübecker Totentanz, a dialogue in Middle Low German between Death and a victim. But the Lubecker Totentanz is pictured and looks like a painting, not poetry? ----valereee (talk) 19:51, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * It is both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:34, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
 * , okay, I've tried to solve that with 'of poetry from a partly extant painting', is that correct? --valereee (talk) 12:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
 * To my understanding, it was completely destroyed in WWII, but he saw it complete. - Have guests, can look closer later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 22 November 2019 (UTC)