"That Fatal Lore-Ley!"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Silcher, Friedrich; Kuhe, W.; Augener & Co.
England, London; Germany
paper
14-3/8 x 10-3/8 in.

Sheet music, "That Fatal Lore-Ley!"; folk song (volkslied) by [Friedrich] Silcher; improvisation for piano by W. Kuhe; published by Augener & Co., London [n.d.]; tinted cover lithograph of siren on rock with lute, 2 sailors in rowboat below; refers to Lorelei, a rock on the banks of the Rhine in West Germany, and legend that it is haunted by a siren who by her beauty and singing lures sailors to their destruction on the rock; rubberstamped at bottom "MUSICAL CIRCULATING LIBRARY/ R. MILLS & SONS,/ MUSIC SELLERS &/ PUBLISHERS/ 194 NEW BOND ..."; 4 pages.

2000.159.13