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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 394.

Text Authorship:

• by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1961, appears in Junger Novize im Zen-Kloster, no. 2 [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 Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Ist auch alles Trug und Wahn", op. 46 no. 6, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Encara que tot sigui engany i il·lusió", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Though everything be deception and delusion", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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