La beauté | La Beauté est l’apanage de l’enfance

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by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)

Translation © by Stéphane Goldet, Pierre de Rosamel

Die Schönheit ist den Kindern eigen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Die Schönheit ist den Kindern eigen,
Ist Gottes Ebenbild vielleicht;
Ihr Eigentum ist Ruh und Schweigen,
Das Engeln auch zum Lob gereicht.

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Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Auf den Tod eines Kindes", appears in Späteste Gedichte 1806-1843 [author's text not yet checked 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 Olivier Greif (1950 - 2000), "Die Schönheit", op. 270 no. 4 (1991) [ voice and piano ], from Wie Vögel…, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Auf den Tod eines Kindes", from Hölderlin-Lieder: Zweiter Zyklus, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "On the death of a child", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Goldet) (Pierre de Rosamel) , "La beauté", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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La beauté

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

La Beauté est l’apanage de l’enfance,
peut-être l’image de Dieu.
Son essence, c’est le calme et le silence,
dont on fait aussi louange aux anges.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to French (Français) copyright © 2015 by Stéphane Goldet and Pierre de Rosamel, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Auf den Tod eines Kindes", appears in Späteste Gedichte 1806-1843
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 25