Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Sirens/267

thumb|600px|center|page=270 Annotations Blumenlied5(German) Flower Song.Gifford (1988) 304.Thornton (1968) 248. Among the hundreds of songs with this title, the most famous are settings of the poem Du Bist wie eine Blume (You Are Like a Flower) by Heinrich Heine.Heinrich Heine, Du Bist wie eine Blume. The poem first appeared in 1825 in Heine's collection Das Buch der Lieder (The Book of Songs). The most celebrated setting was made by Schumann in 1840 in his song cycle Myrthen (Myrtles), Op. 25.Robert Schumann, Myrthen. The poem has also been set to music by Franz Liszt and Hugo Wolf. One of Heine's best known poems is Die Lorelei, which tells of a siren-like creature on the Rhine who lures sailors to their deaths with her beauty and her singing. The name5The German Blumenlied (Flower Song) is a play on Bloom. Playing it slow5Schumann's Du Bist wie eine Blume has the tempo marking Langsam (Slow). References Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesPreceding Page | Page Index | Next Page