by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)
Translation © by David Emery Gascoyne (1916 - 2001)
Alles ist innig
Language: German (Deutsch)
Alles ist innig Das scheidet So birgt der Dichter Verwegner! möchtest von Angesicht zu Angesicht die Seele sehn Du [gehest]1 in Flammen unter.
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Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Gestalt und Geist" [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 Lars-Henrik Nysten (b. 1969), "Gestalt und Geist", 1998, from Vier Fantasiestücke für Klavier und Sopranstimme nach Friedrich Hoelderlin, no. 1 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Wolfgang Michael Rihm (b. 1952), "Gestalt und Geist - Fragment 22", 1976-7, from Hölderlin-Fragmente, no. 8 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by David Emery Gascoyne (1916 - 2001) , "Form and spirit", appears in Hölderlin's Madness, first published 1938, copyright © ; composed by Eric Hudes.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Form and spirit
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
All is an inscape [ ... ]
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Authorship:
- by David Emery Gascoyne (1916 - 2001), "Form and spirit", appears in Hölderlin's Madness, first published 1938, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Gestalt und Geist"
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Eric Hudes (b. 1920), "Form and spirit", op. 10 no. 1, copyright © 1973 [soprano and piano], from Four Fragments from Hölderlin's Madness, no. 1, London : Thames Publishing [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-19
Line count: 6
Word count: 29