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Ich will von den Atriden, Ich will von Kadmus singen: Doch meiner Leyer Saiten Ertönen nur vom Amor. Jüngst wechselt' ich die Saiten, Und dann die Leyer selber, Und wollte nun die Kämpfe Des Herkules [besingen]1: Allein die Leyer tönte Ein Lied von Liebe wieder. So lebt denn wohl, ihr Helden! Denn meine Leyer singet [Von nichts als Liebesgöttern]2.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Johann Heinrich Friedrich Meinecke: Anakreons Gedichte, nebst zwey andern anakreonitschen Gedichten, und den Oden der Sappho. Aus dem Griechischen in die Versarten des Originals übersetzt. Leipzig, bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich. 1776, page 21.
1 Loewe: "singen"2 Loewe: "Allein die Liebesgötter"
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Meinecke (1745 - 1825), "Die Leyer" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) possibly by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE)
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 Loewe (1796 - 1869), "An die Leier", 1815?, also set in Greek (Ελληνικά) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , "To the lyre", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Alla lira", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2003-10-20
Line count: 13
Word count: 62
Voglio cantare degli Atridi, di Cadmo: ma le corde della mia lira risuonano solo d'amore. Da poco ho cambiato le corde, e poi la lira stessa, e volevo cantare le battaglie di Ercole: da sola la lira intonò di nuovo un canto d'amore. E dunque addio, eroi! Ché la mia lira canta solo gli dèi d'amore, solo gli dèi d'amore.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2006 by Amelia Maria Imbarrato, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Heinrich Friedrich Meinecke (1745 - 1825), "Die Leyer"
Based on:
- a text in Greek (Ελληνικά) possibly by Anacreon (c582BCE - c485BCE)
This text was added to the website: 2006-08-21
Line count: 7
Word count: 60