by
Alfred Henschke (1890 - 1928), as Jucundus Fröhlich Klabund
Du gabst mir immer wieder
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
"Du gabst mir immer wieder
Dein Herz und deine Lieder,
Ich nahm sie sorglos hin.
Nun muß ich dich betrüben:
Ich [darf]1 dich [nicht mehr]2 lieben,
Weil ich nicht dein mehr bin."
"Und liebst du einen andern,
[Will]3 ich ins Weite wandern,
Mir wird so enge hier.
Wie schmerzlich blüht der Flieder!
Mein Herz und meine Lieder,
[Ich lasse sie bei dir]4."
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Confirmed with Klabund Gesammelte Gedichte Lyrik Balladen Chansons, Wien: Phaidon-Verlag, 1930, page 231.
1 Mengelberg "kann"
2 Orff: "nimmer"
3 Mengelberg "Muß"
4 Orff: "Die lasse ich bei dir"
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Dorothea Hofmann (b. 1961), "Mein Herz", 2010, first performed 2011 [ tenor and piano ], from »Ich bin erwacht«, 4 Liebeslieder nach Gedichten von Klabund, no. 2, note: this may be the wrong poem for this song [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Kurt) Rudolf Mengelberg (1892 - 1959), "Zwiegespräch", op. 6 no. 1, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder des Abschieds, no. 1, Wien, Leipzig: Universal-Edition [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "Zwiegespräch", 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder und Gesänge nach Texten von Klabund, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Richard Gustav) Heinz Tiessen (1887 - 1971), "Zwiegespräch", op. 53 no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Dialogue", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Dialogue", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 62
Dialogue
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
"Again and again you gave me
Your heart and your songs,
I accepted them unheedingly.
Now I must grieve you:
[I am no longer allowed to] love you,
Because I am no longer yours."
"And if you love another,
I [shall]2 wander out into the wide world,
I feel so confined here.
How painfully the lilac blooms!
My heart and my songs,
[I leave them behind with you]3."
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1 Mengelberg: "I can no longer love you"; Orff: I am not allowed to love you any more”
2 Mengelberg "must"
3 Orff: "Those I leave behind with you"
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This text was added to the website: 2014-10-27
Line count: 12
Word count: 68