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An Kunst und Glanz sind [diese]1 Lieder arm, Schmucklos sind sie im Blumental erklungen, Doch war das Herz, das sie geboren, warm, Und stets von Herzen habe ich gesungen. Nicht Weisheit lehrte mich den frohen Sang, In eigner Brust ist jedes Lied geboren, Und wenn's im Frühlingstale laut erklang, War's mit dem Wind im Abendrot verloren. Wenn du's verstehst, was ich in Lust und Scherz, Was ich im Weh als Heiligstes empfunden, Wenn du im Lied erkennst mein junges Herz, So hab' ich den ersehnten Lohn gefunden.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 1 Jugendschriften, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, page 9.
1 Swienty: "meine"Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), written 1892, appears in Kleine Lieder (für Fräulein Eugenie Kolb), 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 Claus Swienty , "Widmung", from 5 Lieder on words of Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Dedicatòria", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Dedication", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Claus Swienty , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 88
[These]1 songs are poor in artistry and radiance, Without adornment they rang out in the flowery valley, But the heart that gave birth to them was fervent, And I always sang from my heart. 'Twas not wisdom that taught me the joyful singing, Every song was born in my own breast, And after it sounded loudly in the springtime valley, It was lost with the wind in the evening glow. If you understand that which, in joy and jest, Which in suffering I perceived as most holy, When in the song you recognize my young heart, Then I shall have found the yearned-for recompense.
1 Swienty: "My"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), written 1892, appears in Kleine Lieder (für Fräulein Eugenie Kolb), no. 1
This text was added to the website: 2017-12-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 105