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Ich hab dich geliebet und liebe dich noch! Und fiele die Welt zusammen, Aus ihren Trümmern stiegen doch Hervor meiner Liebe Flammen. Und wenn ich dich geliebet hab' Bis meine Todesstunde, So nehm' ich mit ins ewge Grab Die große Liebeswunde.
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Confirmed with Heinrich Heine's gesammelte Werke. Erster Band: Biographische Einleitung von C.A Buchheim. Einleitung. Buch der Lieder. Neue Gedichte. Zeitgedichte, Berlin, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1887, page 134. Above we show Heine's first version of the poem. Later versions consisted of the first stanza alone. In this edition, the first stanza is shown alone with a note describing the first version and its second stanza.
Text Authorship:
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Josephine Lang (1815 - 1880), "Ich hab' dich geliebt", 1838, published 2009 [ voice and piano ], Kassel: Furore Verlag [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Ernst Bacon, Julius von Beliczay, Jan Levolslav Bella, Elof Benktander, Serge Bortkiewicz, Robert Caby, Vladimir Castrioto-Scanderberg, Carlos Chávez, Joseph Dessauer, Heinz Dorguth, Hermann Hanschmann, Lennart Hedwall, Hedwig Hertz, August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, Otto Lessmann, Johann Gottfried Hendrik Mann, Hugo Frederik Johan Nolthenius, Carl Eduard Partzsch, Rudolf Radecke, Ernst Rentsch, Carl Ressler, Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, O. Rüber, Martha von Sabinin, Louis Samson, Alwin Schutzer, Felix Semon, M. D., Johan August Söderman, Josef Sucher, Alfred Tofft, Friedrich Julius Urban, János Végh, as Johann Végh, Ottobald Walther, C. Otto Weber, Joel Weiss, Fürst S. Wolkonsky, Franz Wüllner, J. Zöhrer.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2021-10-09
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Word count: 41
I loved you once and I love you still! And though the world may collapse, From its rubble nevertheless The flames of my love would arise. And when I have loved you Until the hour of my death, I will take with me into the eternal grave The great wound of love.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title
This text was added to the website: 2009-03-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 52