High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler. The words of the songs are poems by Friedrich Ruckert. The original Kindertotenlieder were a group of 428 poems written by Ruckert in 1833– 34 in reaction to the illness (scarlet fever) and death of his two children Luise and Ernst. Painter describes the poems thus: "Ruckert's 428 poems on the death of children became singular, almost manic documents of the psychological endeavor to cope with such loss. In ever new variations Ruckert's poems attempt a poetic resuscitation of the children that is punctuated by anguished outbursts. But above all the poems show a quiet acquiescence to fate and to a peaceful world of solace." These poems were not intended for publication.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.