Blauer Schmetterling | Flügelt ein kleiner blauer

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Flügelt ein kleiner blauer

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG FRE ITA

Flügelt ein kleiner blauer
Falter vom Wind geweht,
Ein perlmutterner Schauer,
Glitzert, flimmert, vergeht.
So mit Augenblicksblinken,
So im Vorüberwehn
Sah ich das Glück mir winken,
Glitzern, flimmern, [vergehn]¹.

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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, pages 307-308.

¹ Schoeck: "verwehn"

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Blauer Schmetterling", written 1927 [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 Wolfgang Rolf Ackermann , "Blauer Schmetterling", <<1957 [ voice and piano ], from Neun Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Oskar Baumann , "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 310 (Hermann Hesse-Lieder, 3. Folge) no. 3 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernst Beckert , "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 362 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 8 (>>2000) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Herbert Brust (1900 - 1968), "Schmetterling", op. 81 no. 4, published 1951 [ baritone and piano ], from Musik des Einsamen, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walter Buschmann (1876 - ?), "Blauer Schmetterling", <<1947 [ voice and piano ], from Zwei Lieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Helene Regina Dehner , "Blauer Schmetterling" [ unaccompanied voice ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 2, unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gottfried von Einem (1918 - 1996), "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 73 no. 2 (1982-3), first performed 1985 [ medium voice and piano ], from 12 Tag- und Nachtlieder, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Förster (1890 - 1952), "Blauer Schmetterling", 1948 [ high voice and piano ], from Ernster Wanderer. Neun Gesänge für hohe Singstimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Albert Gorter (1862 - 1936), "Schmetterling", op. 25 (Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 4 (1959) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Günter Habicht (b. 1916), "Schmetterling" [ baritone and piano ], from Fünf Lieder für Bariton nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinz-Otto Hoffmann (b. 1902), "Blauer Schmetterling", 1932-47 [ voice and piano ], from 21 Lieder, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Bertold Hummel (1925 - 2002), "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 71a no. 3, published 1978, from Sechs Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by G. Jaffe , "Blauer Schmetterling" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Viktor Kioulaphides (b. 1961), "Der blauer Schmetterling" [ counter-tenor, guitar, and mandolin ], from Hesse Lieder, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Schmetterling", op. 30 no. 4, published 1962 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Georg Krietsch (1904 - 1969), "Blauer Schmetterling", published 1954 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans-Hermann Kurig (1914 - 2002), "Blauer Schmetterling ", 1947 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm Lache , "Blauer Schmetterling ", 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Mader (b. 1930), "Schmetterling", 1956 [ voice and piano ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ursula Mamlok (1923 - 2016), "Schmetterling", 1958 [ baritone and piano ], from Four German Songs, no. 3, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
by Otto Mayer (b. 1891), "Blauer Schmetterling ", 1958 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Nahme , "Blauer Schmetterling", 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Herbstkantate nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johannes Nørgaard (b. 1916), "Schmetterling", <<1961 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für Mezzosopran aus: Hermann Hesse, "Vom Baum des Lebens" und "Musik des Einsamen", no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Willi Nöther (1912 - 2004), "Schmetterling", published 1958 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wolfgang Puchelt , "Schmetterling", 1944 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Günter Raphael (1903 - 1960), "Blauer Schmetterling ", 1951 [ high voice and piano ], from Acht Gedichte von Hermann Hesse für hohe Stimme und Klavier, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Günter Raphael (1903 - 1960), "Blauer Schmetterling ", op. 72 no. 6 (<<1957) [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], from Acht Gedichte von Hermann Hesse für hohe Stimme und Orchester, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Friedrich Riepe , "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 6 no. 6, published <<1948 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hermann Ruck (1897 - 1983), "Blauer Schmetterling ", op. 112 (Sechs Lieder) no. 3 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Blauer Schmetterling ", op. 42a no. 11 (1977) [ medium voice and piano ], from Stufen - Hesse-Lieder 1977 für mittlere Singstimme, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Blauer Schmetterling", op. 44 (Zehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 6 (1929), published 1931 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Irmi Schumann , "Schmetterling", 1946 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Frank Steiner , "Blauer Schmetterling " [ voice and piano ], from Der Blütenzweig - Fünf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erich Stockmayer (1883 - 1965), "Blauer Falter", 1953 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Karl Heinz Taubert (1912 - 1990), "Schmetterling", 1957, published 1962 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Vier Lieder für mittlere Singstimme nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Siegfried Thide , "Schmetterling" [ soprano and piano ], from Drei Lieder für Sopran mit Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Blauer Schmetterling" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Heinz Zabel , "Blauer Schmetterling ", <<1947 [ alto, violin, viola, and violoncello ], from Vier Liebeslieder für Alt, Violine, Viola und Violoncello, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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