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Gestern liebt' ich, Heute leid' ich, Morgen sterb' ich: Dennoch denk' ich Heut' und morgen Gern an gestern.
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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]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2007-01-11
Line count: 6
Word count: 18
Yesterday I loved, Today I suffer, Tomorrow I shall die: Nevertheless, I think, Today and tomorrow, Gladly about yesterday.
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Translations of titles:
"Aus dem Spanischen" = "From the Spanish"
"Gestern, heute und morgen" = "Yesterday, today and tomorrow"
"Gestern liebt' ich" = "Yesterday I loved"
"Gestern liebt' ich, heute leid' ich" = "Yesterday I loved, today I suffer"
"Lied aus dem Spanischen" = "Song from the Spanish"
"Vita brevis" = "Vita brevis"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) misattributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) and by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781), "Lied aus dem Spanischen", first published 1779
This text was added to the website: 2024-10-28
Line count: 6
Word count: 19