Vor mir her getrieben Weht ein welkes Blatt. Wandern, Jungsein und Lieben Seine Zeit und sein Ende hat. Das Blatt irrt ohne Gleise Wohin der Wind es will, Hält erst in Wald und Moder still . . . Wohin geht meine Reise?
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 63.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Das treibende Blatt", written 1900 [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 Oskar Baumann , "Das treibende Blatt", op. 308 (Hermann Hesse-Lieder, 2. Folge) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Förster (1890 - 1952), "Das treibende Blatt", 1948 [ high voice and piano ], from Ernster Wanderer. Neun Gesänge für hohe Singstimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Klenk (b. 1898), "Das treibende Blatt" [ voice and string quartet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Viktor Merz (b. 1891), "Das treibende Blatt ", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Walter Müller von Kulm (1899 - 1967), "Das treibende Blatt ", op. 9 no. 4, published 1948 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Das treibende Blatt ", 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Walter Steffens (b. 1934), "Das treibende Blatt ", c1955 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Herbert Thienemann (1884 - 1963), "Das treibende Blatt ", published 1931 [ voice and guitar or lute ], from Sonne im Herbst - Lieder zur Gitarre (Laute), no. 53 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Das treibende Blatt ", <<1949 [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La fulla a mercè del vent", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "The drifting leaf", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The drifting leaf", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "La feuille au gré du vent", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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