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Confirmed with Lessings Werke, Erster Teil, Lieder, Oden, gereimte Fabeln und Erzählungen, Sinngedichte, Fragmente und Fabeln in Prosa, Jugenddramen, Herausgegeben von R. Boxberger, Berlin und Stuttgart: Verlag von W. Spemann, [1866], page 51.

Text Authorship:

• sometimes misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
• by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781), "Lied aus dem Spanischen", first published 1779 [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 Wilhelm Bruch , "Gestern liebt' ich, heute leid' ich", published 1884 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 7, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hans Gál (1890 - 1987), "Vita brevis", op. 27 no. 3 (1926), published 1927, first performed 1927 [ 4/8-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Epigramme: Fünf Madrigale nach Gedichten von Lessing, no. 3, N. Simrock, Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877 - 1933), "Aus dem Spanischen", op. 56 no. 7, published 1907, from Zehn Epigramme von Lessing, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Victor Ernst Nessler (1841 - 1890), "Gestern, heute und morgen", op. 79 no. 2, published 1875 [ voice and piano ], in Die musikalische Welt, Braunschweig, Litolff [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778 - 1851), "Gestern liebt' ich", op. 7 (Sechs deutsche Lieder von Göthe, Schiller, de la Motte Fouqué und St. Schütze) no. 5, published c1819? [ voice and piano ], Berlin: In der Schlesingerschen Buch und Musikhandlung ; note: attributed in some catalogs to Goethe (note that Lessing is not included in the list of poets for this opus!) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Karl Friedrich Rungenhagen (1778 - 1851), "Gestern liebt' ich" [ voice and piano ], from Deutsche Gesänge mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. In Musik gesetzt von Wollank, Hellwig und Rungenhagen, no. 7, Berlin: Im Kunst- und Industrie Comptoir [sung text not yet checked]

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