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Sei mir gegrüsst mein schmeichelndes Clavier! Was keine Sprache richtig nennt, die Krankheit tief in mir die nie mein Mund bekennt die klag ich dir! Dich o Clavier erfand ein Menschenfreund, ein Mann der traurig war, wie ich. Er hat, wie ich, geweint! Voll Kummer schuf er dich für sich und mich. Und Heil sei ihm, Vertauter meiner Brust Heil sei dem Mann, der dich erfand! Hat ihn, der Schmerz und Lust an deine Saiten band, kein Stein genandt?
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Greetings to you, my affectionate piano! What no language can utter correctly, The sickness deep within me That my lips never confess, I lament to you! You, oh piano, were invented by a friend of mankind, A man who was sad, as I am. Like me, he wept! Full of sorrow he created you For himself and for me. And praise be to him, confidant of my bosom, Praise to the man who invented you! He who bound pain and joy To your strings, is his name Not engraved upon any stone?
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