GREAT LYRIC INSPIRED BY PIG
It has been declared that the poem most often set to music by modern composers was, originally addressed to a pig. This is Heine's "Du bist wie cine Blume*' (Thou'rt like a lovely flower), of which there are over a hundred settings, most of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century having written music to it, including Schumann, Rubinstein, Liszt, and. amdng recent composers, Lord Berners The last of these has made a kind of parody of it indicating the grunting of the pig, etc. The poet himself, however, and the other composers, managed to forget the amusing and disagreeable features of the animnl, and to see only toe beauty and purity of its white skm. This, it has been said, is the extreme example of what art is, the extraction 'Of beauty from the most unlikely materials and surroundings—but it is all rather distressing, really.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 4
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151GREAT LYRIC INSPIRED BY PIG New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12250, 23 September 1925, Page 4
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