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Wohl denk ich oft an mein vergangnes Leben, Wie es vor meiner Liebe für dich war; Kein Mensch hat damals Acht auf mich gegeben, Ein jeder Tag verloren für mich war; Ich dachte wohl, ganz dem Gesang zu leben, Auch mich zu flüchten aus der Menschen Schar. Genannt in Lob und Tadel bin ich heute, Und, daß ich da bin, wissen alle Leute!
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Confirmed with Die Gedichte des Michelangelo Buonarroti. Übersetzt [...] von Walter Robert-Tornow, ed. by Georg Thouret, Berlin: Haude & Spener'sche Buchhandlung, 1896. Appears in Freunde, in Giovanni da Pistoia, in Das Riechbüchsen, fragment no. 6, page 63. Note: this is a translation of the lines beginning "I'vo pensando al mio viver di prima".
Text Authorship:
- by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895), no title [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 54
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Wohl denk ich oft an mein vergangnes Leben", 1897, from Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Michelangelo, no. 1
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Knut W. Barde) , "It is quite often that I think of my past life", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Dažnai mąstau apie praėjusį gyvenimą", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Gerardo Garciacano Hinojosa) (Simone von Büren) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Torsten Roeder , Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 63
A menudo pienso en mi vida pasada como era antes de amarte. Absolutamente nadie de mi se ocupaba, cada día era un día perdido para mi. Pensaba dedicar toda mi vida al canto y huir de la gente. Hoy me nombran con elogios y reproches y que estoy vivo lo saben todos.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2010 by Gerardo Garciacano Hinojosa and Simone von Büren, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895), no title [an adaptation]
Based on:
- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 54
This text was added to the website: 2010-06-17
Line count: 8
Word count: 52