Der Föhn schreit jede Nacht, Sein feuchter Flügel flattert schwer. Brachvögel taumeln durch die Luft. [Nun]1 schläft nichts mehr, Nun ist das ganze Land erwacht, Der Frühling ruft. In diesen Nächten schlaf ich nicht. Mein Herz wird jung, Aus blauen Tiefen der Erinnerung Steigt meiner Jugend heißes Glück, Schaut mir so [nahe]2 ins Gesicht, Erschrickt, und flieht zurück. Bleib still, bleib still, mein Herz! Ob auch im Blute eng und schwer Die Leidenschaft sich rührt Und dich die alten Wege führt -- Nicht jugendwärts Gehn deine Wege mehr.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 2 Die Romane, Getrud, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 388-389.
1 Franckenstein: "Jetzt"2 Franckenstein: "lange"
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written <<1909, appears in Gertrud, first published 1910 [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 Clemens von Franckenstein (1875 - 1942), "Der Föhn", op. 49 (Drei Gesänge) no. 2, published 1934 [ alto and piano ], Ed. Bote & G. Bock, Berlin, MCMXXXIV [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Modler , "Der Föhn schreit jede Nacht", op. 21 no. 3 (1945) [ tenor and piano ], from Drei Lieder für Tenor aus "Gertrud", no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Würz (1903 - 1995), "Der Föhn", subtitle: "Aus Getrud", 1941 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Gottfried von Einem.
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