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Artist: Edvard Grieg
Author: Hans Christian Andersen/Edvard Grieg
Year: 1864
Danish for I Love Only You. Third part of his song cycle Hjertets Melodier (Melodies From The Heart) composed around four Hans Christian Andersen poems. Dedicated to his future wife Nina Hagerup he'd just met in Copenhagen.
Covers:
Richard Tauber [as Ich liebe Dich]
Karin Branzell [idem]
Richard Tauber [as I Love Thee]
Helena Bliss-Walter Kingsford-Ivy Scott & chorus [in operette Song Of Norway as I Love You]
Frank Sinatra [idem]
Ciska Peters [as Jelskedije; lyrics: Peter Koelewijn]
Beppie Kraft [idem]
Anne Sofie von Otter [in Danish]
Grieg rearranged Jeg Elsker Dig's melody for his Piano Transcriptions Of Songs (op. 41). In 1944 Robert Wright & George Forrest used Grieg's melodies for musical Song Of Norway, with a Nina Hagerup as one of the characters.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)