Talk:Die glückliche Hand
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When I first heard this music, around seventy years ago, I remember the broadcast introduction taking great care to explain exactly what the German expression "Gluckliche Hand" actually meant. Nothing like the "Hand of Fate" was even hinted at, and even the various online instant translationa available don't use those words - or ideas - either. Where on earth does this rendering come from? If I can make sense of what actually appears to be the meaning it seems to be this - the "Gluckliche Hand" is innate natural ability - in art, in love or anything you set your mind, or hand, to. Whether or not you have it is a matter of chance and luck. You can't learn it- it's not a trick or an acquirable skill. Schoenberg's "Mann" has it all right, but not in what matters most to him. The title therefore is ironic and the English equivalent proposed here doesn't show "eine gluckliche Hand" at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Delahays (talk • contribs) 17:32, 3 December 2022 (UTC)