by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857)
Wie klag' ich's aus
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Language: German (Deutsch)
»Wie klag' ich's aus Das Sterbegefühl, Das auflösend Durch die Glieder rinnt? Wie sing' ich's aus Das Werdegefühl, Das erlösend Dich, o Geist, anweht?« Es klagt', es sang Vernichtungsbang, Verklärungsfroh, Bis das Leben floh. Das ist des Schwanen Gesang!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Johann Senn. Innsbruck, in der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung. 1838, page 15
Note: Schubert received Senn's poem in handwritten form. Senn issued it later in the book mentioned above, with the footnote In Musik gesetzt von Fr. Schubert.
Text Authorship:
- by Johann Chrysostomos Senn (1795 - 1857), "Schwanenlied" [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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