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Re: Eine Alpensinfonie op.64
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"Christoph M. Sickinger" <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:35:00 +0100
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Walter Meyer wrote:

>With a review so short and otherwise sweet, why call it "Eine
>Alptraumsinfonie" which looks like "Eine Alptraumsymphonie" which
>would be German for "A Nightmare Symphony"?

Actually the correct spelling would be Albtraumsymphonie.  Albtraum
literally means demon-dream (or elf-dream).

Christoph Sickinger
Somerset

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