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Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram, Ein Lied eintöniger Weise, [Doch]1 immer noch, wo ich's vernahm, Mitsummen mußt' [ich]2 leise.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotesConfirmed with Friedrich Rückert's gesammelte Poetische Werke in zwölf Bänden, Fünfter Band, Frankfurt am Main, J. D. Sauerländer's Verlag, 1868, page 357.
1 Brahms: "Und"2 Brahms: "ich's"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Stellen aus Hafisens Liedern, no. 40 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Einförmig ist der Liebe Gram", op. 113 no. 13, published 1891 [ 4 sopranos, 2 altos ], from 13 Kanons für Frauenstimmen, no. 13, Leipzig, Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Heinz Scholtys (1900 - 1945), "Liebesgram" [ voice and piano ], from 94 Lieder, no. 58 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Monòtona és la pena d’amor", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Eenvormig zingt de liefdespijn", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "The grief of love is monotonous", copyright © 2015
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La douleur de l'amour est monotone", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2005-08-29
Line count: 4
Word count: 21
The grief of love is monotonous, A song with [only] one note; Yet whenever I heard it, I had to hum softly along with it.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2015 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Rückert (1788 - 1866), no title, appears in Stellen aus Hafisens Liedern, no. 40
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hafis (c1327 - 1390) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2015-12-02
Line count: 4
Word count: 25