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by Ono no Komachi (c825 - c900)
Translation by Paul Alfred Enderling (1880 - 1938)

Verträumtes Leben
 (Sung text for setting by E. Löwenfeld)
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Language: German (Deutsch)  after the Japanese (日本語) 
Die Blumen blühten
In lockenden Farben...
Ich sah in den wellenden
Strom meines Lebens.
Die Blumen starben.
Sie blühten und starben --
Vergebens, vergebens!

Composition:

    Set to music by Erwin Löwenfeld (1882 - 1949), as Erwin Lendvai, "Verträumtes Leben", op. 5 no. 6 [ soprano and women's chorus ], from Nippon. Eine Chorsuite für weibliche Stimmen. Nach altjapanischen Dichtungen, no. 6

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Alfred Enderling (1880 - 1938), appears in Japanische Novellen und Gedichte

Based on:

  • a text in Japanese (日本語) by Ono no Komachi (c825 - c900) [text unavailable]
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-23
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