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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

An die Günstigen
 (Sung text for setting by J. Kränzle)
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Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG
Dichter lieben nicht zu schweigen,
Wollen sich der Menge zeigen;
Lob und Tadel muß ja seyn!
Niemand beichtet gern in Prosa;
Doch vertraun wir oft sub Rosa
In der Musen stillem Hain.
 
Was ich irrte, was ich strebte,
Was ich litt und was ich lebte,
Sind hier Blumen nur im Strauß;
Und das Alter wie die Jugend,
Und der Fehler wie die Tugend
Nimmt sich gut in Liedern aus.

Confirmed with Goethe's Poetische und Prosaische Werke in zwei Bänden, Des Ersten Bandes Erste Abtheilung, Stuttgart und Tübingen: Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1836, page 2.


Composition:

    Set to music by Johannes Martin Kränzle (b. 1962), "An die Günstigen", 2020 [ soprano and piano ], from Drei Dichter-Lieder, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "An die Günstigen"

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Edgar Alfred Bowring) , "To the Kind Reader"
  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "To the favoured ones", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-04-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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