Einmal in Kindertagen Ging ich die Wiese lang, Kam still getragen Im Morgenwind ein Gesang, Ein Ton in blauer Luft, Oder ein Duft, ein blumiger Duft, Der duftete süß, der klang Eine Ewigkeit lang, Meine ganze Kindheit lang. Es war mir nicht mehr bewußt -- Erst jetzt in diesen Tagen Hör ich innen in der Brust Ihn wieder verborgen schlagen. Und jetzt ist alle Welt mir einerlei, Will nicht mit den Glücklichen tauschen, Will nur lauschen, Lauschen und stillestehn, Wie die duftenden Töne gehn, Und ob es noch der Klang von damals sei.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 236.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Verlorener Klang", written 1917, first published 1917 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Verlorener Klang" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder für Gesang und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Verlorener Klang", op. 38 no. 5, published 1964 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Willy Stärk (b. 1913), "Verlorener Klang ", 1931 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Felix Wolfes (1892 - 1971), "Verlorener Klang", 1962 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Verlorener Klang ", 1950 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Lost sound", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Sonorité perdue", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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