"Ich liebe dich" : message to my grandchild "C".

(photo taken by my friend Marco at Bayerische Staatsoper 2014)


Or,  how to learn German  with Anja Harteros,
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Karl Friedrich Wilhlem Herrosee.

A classical version of :
  "All you need is ... love".

   and
Patience
   and another
Ttranslation into English.
  
As a very good singer,
(we saw Anja Harteros in Berlin, she was Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin and you were brave enough to enjoy your first Wagner's opera with me!)
 Anja Harteros utters sung words so  perfectly that  they become easier to memorise.
Beethoven's melody which sounds so sweet and simple on the piano, is also very helpful.
("Klagen"  for instance,  strongly put in full view with this 'forte'
is now unforgettable...sorrow, distress...)

 Ich Liebe Dich

Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich,
am Abend und am Morgen,
Noch war kein Tag,
wo du und ich nicht theilten uns’re Sorgen.
Auch waren sie fuer dich und
mich getheilt leicht zu ertragen,
Du troestetest im Kummer mich,
ich weint’in deine Klagen, in deine Klagen;
Drum gottes Segen ueber dir,
du meines Lebens Freude,
Gott schuetze dich, erhalt’ dich mir,
schuetz’ und erhalt’ uns beide, Erhalt,
erhalt’ uns beide, erhalt’ uns beide.

 I Love You

I love you, as you love me,
in the evening and in the morning,
there wasn’t any day,
that you and me didn’t share our worries.
They became also common to you and me,
lighter to bear.
You comforted me in my suffering,
I cried in your sorrows, in your sorrows;
Therefore may God’s blessings come upon you,
you joy of my life,
may God protect you, keep you for me,
protect and keep us both, keep,
keep us both, keep us both.

(Many thanksfor the translation of Herrosee's poem
to:

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/ich-liebe-dich-i-love-you.html-2#ixzz3qwDYusE9

his translation is Intellectual Property of evfokas, unless indicated otherwise by a Translation Source field, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Submitted by evfokas on Tue, 26/07/2011 - 08:27

thanked 40 times

(Many thanks to Cittacentro1 for uploading this melody sung by Anja Harteros, I do hope it will stay on YT for quite awhile,  long enough to learn it by heart,  with words, tune and notes on the piano...)