THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

13 Cheyne Walk
S.W

[1909?]

Dear Miss Kjöhler

C^d you sing any of the following Schumanns for lecture 7.¹

Nuss Baum or Im Walde
or ( In meine Thränen   ) Dichterliebe 1 & 2
     (Im Wunderschönen )
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Fruhlingsfahrt

Ich habe im Traum.    Dichterliebe 13
or Im Rhein  –              ——–   6

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or instead of all this How w^d you care to do 4 songs from the Frauen-liebe?
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Also what English songs (not folk-songs) do you know? I think I ought to illustrate questions of accent by English songs.
I enclose “Vier Ernste Gesänge” – if you c^d possibly see your way to sing No 2 (  )² (in English perhaps) it w^d be very kind of you
Yrs
R. Vaughan Williams

1. Kjöhler was apparently singing extracts to illustrate lectures by VW; see also VWL4493.
2. VW has left the brackets empty; presumably he had intended to insert the title ‘Ich wandte mich’.