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Ach, wie ist's möglich dann — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Ach, wie ist's möglich dann — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach,_wie_ist%27s_m%C3%B6glich_dann},
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  year = {2026}
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach,_wie_ist%27s_m%C3%B6glich_dann. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

"Ach, wie ist's möglich dann" also known as "Treue Liebe" (True/Loyal Love), and “How Can I Leave Thee” is a German now-traditional song. Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810–1882), a German composer and conductor, claimed to have composed the tune, and that it was later modified "probably by Silcher" ("wahrscheinlich von Silcher her") and given the general name Thüringer Volkslied ("Thuringian folksong"). Its popularity helped Kücken get chosen for the court of Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The tune is used at West Point, Lincoln University (Missouri) ("Lincoln, O, Lincoln"), Wake Forest University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Marlene Dietrich sang the song and it has been used in some movies, e.g. Three Comrades uses the melody throughout the film as Leitmotif for love. Similarly, Max Ophüls used it in the same year as a leitmotiv in Le Roman de Werther. It was the theme tune of the radio soap opera Stella Dallas through most of its run (1938--1955). The silent film Ach, wie ist's möglich dann (1913) by Peter Ostermayr bears the song's title. In early German-American communities the song was adapted into “How Can I Leave Thee” with an English version of the lyrics that suggest the song had become one of familial love and more than that of a couple. It was included in hymnals despite being a secular song.

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Ach, wie ist's möglich dann» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach,_wie_ist%27s_m%C3%B6glich_dann
Wikidata Q55603132: «popular German song» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55603132
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach,_wie_ist%27s_m%C3%B6glich_dann?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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