Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden

Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden,
Du er mit Hjertes første Kærlighed.
Jeg elsker Dig, som Ingen her på Jorden,
Jeg elsker Dig i Tid og Evighed!

Translation(s): ENG FRE GER GER

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• by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), "Min Tankes Tanke", written 1833, from Samlede Digte - Epigrammatiske Digte XII [ author's text not yet checked 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 Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Jeg elsker Dig", op. 5 no. 3 (1864), published 1865, from Hjertets melodier, no. 3, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden" [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz (Friedrich) von Holstein (1826 - 1878) , "Ich liebe dich" [an adaptation] DUT ENG FRE by Edvard Grieg, Otto Hohlfeld, Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Nils Lid Hjort) , "I love you", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Je t'aime", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Mein einzig Sinnen, Trachten sollst du...

Mein einzig Sinnen, Trachten sollst du werden,
du, meines Herzens erste Lieb und Freud.
Ich liebe dich, wie niemand hier auf Erden,
ich liebe dich bis in die Ewigkeit!

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• Translation from Danish (Dansk) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2018 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in Danish (Dansk) by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), "Min Tankes Tanke", written 1833, from Samlede Digte - Epigrammatiske Digte XII ENG FRE
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Edvard Grieg, Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller. Go to the text.

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