Hör ich seine Weise flüstern Meinen Bambus in der Nacht, Hab ich bang und reiselüstern Manche Stunde hell gewacht. Dringlich zieht michs fort von allen Den gewohnten Lebenskreisen, Weg zu fliegen, weg zu fallen, Ins Unendliche zu reisen. Einst vor tausend Jahren gab es Eine Heimat, einen Garten, Wo im Beet des Vogelgrabes Aus dem Schnee die Krokus starrten. Vogelschwingen möcht ich breiten Aus dem Bann, der mich begrenzt, Zu dem Beet und zu den Zeiten, Deren Gold mir heut noch glänzt.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Gesammelte Werke, Erster Band (Stufen, Die späten Gedichte, Frühe Prosa, Peter Camenzind), Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1970, page 152. This is the first version (erste Fassung). The second version can be found here.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Einst vor tausend Jahren" [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 Bernhard Rövenstrunck (1920 - 2010), "Hör ich seine Weise flüstern", 1962 [ mezzo-soprano and guitar ], from Zwei Lieder für Mezzosopran und Gitarre nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by Lothar Hundertmark, as Mark Lothar, Ernst Ludwig Leitner, Hildegard Quiel.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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