Mark Greeley ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Well, I know that his Kindertotenlieder are based on poems extracted from >"the Chinese Flute," a set of poems written earlier. No. Das Lied von der Erde is based on poems from Hans Bethge's Die chino"sische Flo"te, which was a series of "translations" from Chinese originals. Kindertotenlieder is based on poems by Friederich Ru"ckert. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]