 Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine is probably the most "composed" poet throughout the whole history. His poems where always a great source of inspiration for many composers. His poems as well as his many letters are full of references towards women and love. In some of the poems he names women he had known as Kitty, Klariss etc.
I chose deliberately those poems in which he treats women in a satiric, ironic and even cruel and chauvinistic way. In those poems the woman is a crook, a cheater and unfaithful, ungrateful, she plays with the man who is madly in love with her. The woman that can never love a true love like the man that cannot control her, that signifies death and her beauty brings only disaster.
The woman in those poems causes only pain and suffering to the man.
I do not know if Heine meant it to be like that but I saw in those poems a possibility of treating them as cabaret songs with irony and humor and so I composed them.
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