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Ich habe wenig Lieder In meinem Leben gemacht, Ich singe sie mir und den Mädchen Am Brunnen in der Nacht. Das eine von der Jugend, Die rot unbändig blüht Und nach Streit und Abenteuer In ewiger Sehnsucht glüht. Das andere von den warmen Nächten der Sommerzeit Und von allen schönen Weibern, Um die ich geweint und gefreit. Das dritte sing' ich zur Geige In jeder fremden Stadt, Vom Heimweh des Zigeuners, Der keine Heimat hat.
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 120.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Lieder", written 1902 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Walther Hecklinger , "Lieder", 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Hesse-Lieder, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hermann Ruck (1897 - 1983), "Ich habe wenig Lieder", op. 112 (Sechs Lieder) no. 5 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Lieder " [ tenor or baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Zoll (1907 - 1978), "Lieder ", published 1959 [ bass and orchestra ], from Ode an die Musik - Kantate für Soli, Chor und Orchester , no. 2b [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Songs", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 75
Few are the songs That I have written in my life, I sing them to myself and to the maidens By the well in the night. The one [song] about youth That blooms unrestrainedly red And after battle and adventure Glows in eternal yearning. The other about the warm Nights of summertime And about all the beautiful women Over whom I have wept and whom I have wooed. The third I sing to the fiddle In every foreign town, About the homesickness of the gypsy Who has no homeland.
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2014 by Sharon Krebs, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Lieder", written 1902
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 89