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Rotästige Föhren, Birken silbern und zier, Schweigsame Buchen, Sagt, leidet auch ihr? Und ihr, atmende Blumen Im summenden Bienengesang, Ist denn auch euer Leben So dunkel und bang?
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 167.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Spaziergang", written 1909 [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 Franz Josef Frey (b. 1907), "Spaziergang", 1951 [ soprano and piano ], from Hermann Hesse-Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Herbert Thienemann (1884 - 1963), "Spaziergang", published 1931 [ voice and guitar or lute ], from Sonne im Herbst - Lieder zur Gitarre (Laute), no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Passejada", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Stroll", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Promenade", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 28
Pins de branques roges, bedolls argentats i esvelts, faigs taciturns, digueu, vosaltres també sofriu? I vosaltres, flors que aleneu en el cant del bugonar de les abelles, és també la vostra vida tan ombrívola i angoixant?
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2025 by Salvador Pila, (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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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Spaziergang", written 1909
This text was added to the website: 2025-12-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 36