Hymn of Triumphant Love

“Love is patient, kind, does not think evil, does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in truth…” The last thing Anna German did in her life was to write music for this Hymn of Love by the Apostle Paul: “Love does not envy, love is not boastful; it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things….” And this book became the same Hymn of Love. This is an unofficial memoir of the great singer, about so much that she was forced to keep silent (about the German origins of her family, the tragic fate of her father, who was repressed and shot in 1938, and her friendship with the future Pope John Paul II).

This is the confession of a happy woman whose life had true Love. Her beloved offered her his hand and heart when doctors refused to believe that she would be able to walk after a terrible accident (49 fractures, a very severe spinal injury, six months in a cast; for more than three years she did not go on stage). Her husband was with her “in sorrow and in joy,” both in the happy years of her great fame and in the tragic days, when, learning about her fatal illness, she decided to write this book. And she wrote it the same way she sang: in neither her “golden voice” nor in this last confession is there a single false note, no anger, no despair—only a Hymn of triumphant Love.