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Mein Herz ist wie ein See so weit, Drin lacht dein [Antlitz]1 sonnenlicht In tiefer süßer Einsamkeit, Wo leise Well' an Well' sich bricht. Ist's Nacht, ist's Tag? Ich weiß es nicht, Lacht doch auf mich so lieb und lind Dein [sonnenlichtes]2 [Angesicht]3 Und selig bin ich wie ein Kind.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte und Sprüche von Friedrich Nietzsche,Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von C.G. Naumann, 1901, page 23.
1 Orff: "Auge"2 Thomas: "sonnenhelles"
3 Orff: "Augenlicht"
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), appears in Lieder, no. 1 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Mein Herz ist wie ein See so weit", 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder für hohe Stimme, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Kurt Thomas (1904 - 1973), "Mein Herz ist wie ein See so weit", op. 9 no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton von Webern (1883 - 1945), "Heiter", 1901-4, from Acht frühe Lieder, no. 6
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El meu cor és tan gran com un llac", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Bonheur", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Munter", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 53
Chomh leathan leis an loch mo chroí, Is gáireann ann do ghrian-ghnúis In uaigneas milis domhain síoraí Is tonn ar tonn ag teacht go ciúin. An oíche, lá? Ní heol dom é, Ní heol dom ach do gháire geal Ag taitneamh ormsa go séimh – Nach sona atáim im pháiste seal.
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Text Authorship:
- Singable translation from German (Deutsch) to Irish (Gaelic) copyright © 2016 by Gabriel Rosenstock.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), appears in Lieder, no. 1
This text was added to the website: 2016-01-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 51