Fundamentally Sound - Die Leiden des jungen Werthers

Fundamentally Sound performs an original art song at their 4th annual Spring Show entitled "FS on Safari"

"Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" is an original German text setting of an excerpt from Goethe's famous epistolary novel of the same name, published in 1774.

Solo: Tyler Mitchell
Music: Danny Mulligan
Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The following is an English translation of the text:

"I beg of you look I am done for. I cannot endure it a moment longer.
Today I was with her She was sitting she was playing the piano
different pieces, and with so much expression with so much with so
much.

Tears rushed to my eyes. I leaned forward and suddenly could see
nothing but Lottes wedding ring, and my tears flowed. And all of a
sudden, as if by chance, she began to play that old, heavenly sweet
melody, and I was consoled. And my soul was filled with the
recollection of things past, of other times when I had listened to the
song, the dark intervals, the grief, the hopes dashed, and then I
started to pace the room, up and down, my heart stifled with the
pressure of these memories.

'For Gods sake,' I said, turning on her with a vehemence I could not
control, 'for Gods sake, stop!'

I tore myself away and dear God, thou seest my misery. Put an end to
it, I beseech Thee! "

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