DAS HOHELIED
for tenor and piano; 1991, rev. 2000, duration: 5 min.
Text: Heinrich Heine

Dedicated to Mimi Deckers



Written as a present for Mimi Deckers, who in 1991 successfully finished her study of theology by graduating with a book about the Song of Songs. According to Heine's poem, by the way, woman herself is the song of songs...