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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Menschengefühl
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  ENG HUN
Ach, ihr Götter! große Götter
In dem weiten Himmel droben!
Gäbet ihr uns auf der Erde
Festen Sinn und guten Muth;
O wir ließen euch, ihr Guten,
Euren weiten Himmel droben!

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 69.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Menschengefühl" [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ferdinand von Hiller (1811 - 1885), "Menschengefühl", op. 63 no. 3, published 1857 [ ttbb chorus ], from Drei Gedichte von Göthe für vierstimmigen Männerchor, no. 3, Mainz: Bei B. Schott's Söhnen [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Human emotions", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Hangulat", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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

This text was added to the website: 2015-01-20
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