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by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719 - 1803)

Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  DUT ENG
  Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!
Den Orient wollt' ich erschüttern;
Die Muselmänner sollten zittern,
Konstantinopel wäre mein!
Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!

  Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!
Athen und Sparta sollten werden,
Wie Rom, die Königin der Erden,
Die alte sollte sich verneun!
Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!

  Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!
Die grossen Helden mir zu singen,
Wollt' ich die grossen Geister dingen;
Die goldnen Zeiten führt' ich ein!
Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!

  Ich möchte wol der Kaiser seyn!
Weil aber Joseph meinen Willen
Bei seinem Leben will erfüllen,
Und sich darauf die Weisen freun,
So mag er immer Kaiser seyn!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Holzer •   J. Lang •   W. Mozart 

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Confirmed with Lyrische Anthologie, Herausgegeben von Friedrich Matthisson, Neunzehnter Theil, Zürich: bey Orell Füssli und Compagnie, 1807, page 94.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719 - 1803), "Der Kaiser" [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 Johann Holzer (1753 - 1818), "Der Kayser", published 1779 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig: im Schwickertschen Verlage [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Meine Wünsche!", c1835 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), "Ein deutsches Kriegslied", K. 539 (1788) [ bass and orchestra ] [sung text checked 2 times]

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Een Duits krijgslied", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 116

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