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by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)

Das Angenehme dieser Welt hab' ich...
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG FRE
Das Angenehme dieser Welt hab' ich genossen,
[Die Jugendstunden sind]1, wie lang! wie lang! verflossen,
April und Mai und Julius sind ferne,
Ich bin nichts mehr, ich lebe nicht mehr gerne!

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•   P. Hindemith 

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1 Hindemith: "Der Jugend Freuden"

Text Authorship:

  • by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt...", appears in Späteste Gedichte 1806-1843 [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 Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", op. 109 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 2 (1938) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Fragment", 1933 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", from Hölderlin-Lieder: Zweiter Zyklus, no. 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Karl Michael Komma (1913 - 2012), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", 1970 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Das Angenehme", 1962, copyright © 1979, first performed 1979 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux poèmes de Friedrich Hölderlin, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Erich Adolf Saudek (1904 - 1963) , copyright © ; composed by Gideon Klein.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (John H. Campbell) , "I have enjoyed this agreeable world", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Michael Komma

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 33

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