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Buek, E.
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E. Buek was a prolific and versatile translator who specialized in translations of vocal musical works in the late 19th and early 20th century. Buek could translate equally from German to English and from English to German. One of the best known of these works was the “Standchen “or “Serenade,” an adaptation for voice of the fourth movement (Andante grazioso) of Victor Herbert’s Suite for Cello and Orchestra. It was published in both New York and Berlin in 1889. An example of Buek’s translation skill was the conversion from English to German of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem The Nun of Nidarus for a composition by Daniel Protheroe, a Welsh composer who taught music in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Buek also translated many cantatas and German lieder into English.