LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,111)
  • Text Authors (19,487)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Was wird mir jede Stunde so bang?
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Was wird mir jede Stunde so bang? --
Das Leben ist kurz, der Tag ist lang.
Und immer sehnt sich fort das Herz,
Ich weiß nicht recht, ob himmelwärts;
Fort aber will es hin und hin
Und möchte vor sich selber fliehn.
Und fliegt es an der Liebsten Brust,
Da ruht's im Himmel unbewußt;
Der Lebestrudel reißt es fort,
Und immer hängt's an einem Ort;
Was es gewollt, was es verlor,
Es bleibt zuletzt sein eigner Tor.

About the headline (FAQ)

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, appears in West-östlicher Divan, in 6. Buch der Sprüche -- Hikmet Nameh [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 Moritz Hauptmann (1792 - 1868), "Was wird mir jede Stunde so bang", op. 28 (12 Lieder) no. 4, published 1842 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Peters [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hans Huber (1852 - 1921), "Was wird mir jede Stunde so bang'?", op. 69 no. 3, published 1883 [ SATB quartet and piano four-hands ], from Aus Goethe's west-östlichem Divan. Zehn Quartette für S., A., T. und B. mit vierhändiger Pianofortebegleitung, no. 3, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-05-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 76

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris