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Maienkätzchen, erster Gruß, Ich breche [euch]1 und stecke [euch]1 An meinen alten Hut. Maienkätzchen, erster Gruß, Einst brach ich [euch]1 und steckte [euch]1 Der Liebsten an den Hut.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Pfitzner: "dich"
Authorship
- by Detlev von Liliencron (1844 - 1909), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", appears in Adjudantenritte, in Liebeslied, no. 5 [author's text not yet checked 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 Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", 1905 [voice and piano], from Jugendlieder, Vol. II (1904-08), no. 42. [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Maienkätzchen", op. 107 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4 (1886), published 1888 [voice and piano], Berlin, Simrock [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Hermann (1870 - 1931), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", op. 44 (Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung), Heft 1 (3 Lieder) no. 1, published 1899 [voice and piano], Breslau, Hainauer [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", 1896, published 2005 [voice and piano], Mainz, Schott [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Oskar C. Posa, né Oskar Posamentir (1873 - 1951), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", published 1900 [voice and piano], from Fünf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 2, Berlin, Simrock [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", op. 5 (Acht Lieder), Heft 2 no. 2 (1897?) [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Catkins, first greeting", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Profonde nostalgie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Dyp lengsel", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:39
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Word count: 28
Catkins, first greeting; I break you off and stick you in my old hat. Catkins, first greeting, Once I broke you off and stuck you in my sweetheart's hat.
Authorship
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Detlev von Liliencron (1844 - 1909), "Tiefe Sehnsucht", appears in Adjudantenritte, in Liebeslied, no. 5
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:39
Line count: 6
Word count: 30