Es wird dir sonderbar erscheinen, Daß ich zuweilen wie ein Knabe Nicht schlafen kann vor lautem Weinen Und bitterlich das Heimweh habe, Und daß ich tagelang in Träumen Hinschlendre mit geheimem Leid An fremden, stillen Gartensäumen, Gedenkend meiner Kinderzeit ...
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 70.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Es wird dir sonderbar erscheinen --", written 1900 [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 Manfred Frischknecht (b. 1937), "Es wird dir sonderbar erscheinen", 1954 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinrich Pestalozzi (1878 - 1940), "Es wird dir sonderbar erscheinen ", op. 37 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 4 (1923), published <<1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Es wird dir sonderbar erscheinen ", 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Et semblarà estrany", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "It will seem strange to you --", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Il te semblera étrange", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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