by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914)
Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): CAT
Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie hör ich vergangene Tage mich umklingen. Heiß von Thränen wird mir die Wange, und von wehmütigen Seufzern schluchzt mir die Brust, an der du - ach Du! einst dein blondes, erglühendes Köpfchen bargst, o Geliebte!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Ich und die Welt. Gedichte von Christian Morgenstern, Verlag von Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin, 1898, page 94.
Text Authorship:
- by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), no title, appears in Ich und die Welt, first published 1898 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Erinnerung", op. 31 (Neun Lieder nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern) no. 3, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Leuckart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wilhelm Ludwig Kaun (1863 - 1932), "Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie", op. 49 (Vier Lieder) no. 3, published 1903, copyright © 1903 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg : D. Rahter [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie", 1928, from 13 Lieder nach Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Marx (1882 - 1964), "Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie", 1935, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], in Lieder der Gegenwart, Musikverlag J. Kliment [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Gleich einer versunkenen Melodie", op. 51 (Zwölf Lieder) no. 8 (1900), published 1901 [ medium voice and piano ], München, Aibl Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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