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by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866)

Zauberkreis
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  DUT
Was steht denn auf den hundert Blättern
Der Rose all?
Was sagt denn tausendfaches Schmettern
Der Nachtigall?

Auf allen Blättern steht, was stehet
Auf einem Blatt;
Aus jedem [Lied]1 weht, was gewehet
Im ersten hat:

Daß Schönheit in sich [selbst]2 beschrieben
Hat einen Kreis,
Und keinen andern auch das Lieben
Zu finden weiss.

Drum kreist um sich mit hundert Blättern
Die Rose all,
Und um sie tausendfaches Schmettern
Der Nachtigall.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   H. Esser 

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with Friedrich Rückert, Gesammelte poetische Werke, Fünfter Band. Neue Ausgabe, Frankfurt am Main: Sauerl&aauml;nder, 1882, pages 326-327. Note: in this edition, in stanza 3, line 1, word 5 is a typo: "sebst" instead of "selbst". In later editions, the word becomes "selb'"

1 Esser: "Liede"
2 Esser: "selb'"

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), "Zauberkreis", appears in Wanderung, in 4. Vierter Bezirk. Östliche Rosen [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 Albert Hermann Dietrich (1829 - 1908), "Zauberkreis", op. 8 (6 zweistimmige Lieder) no. 3, published 1853 [ vocal duet with piano ], Bonn: Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Zauberkreis", op. 40 (4 Lieder) no. 3, published 1853 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Zauberkreis", 1843-4?, published 2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Toverkring", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Lau Kanen [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

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