Hangulat | Ó, istenek, nagy istenek

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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Translation © by Tamás Rédey

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

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This text was added to the website: 2015-01-20
Line count: 6
Word count: 31

Hangulat

Language: Hungarian (Magyar) after the German (Deutsch)

Ó, istenek, nagy istenek
ott fönn a ritka mennyeken!
Osszatok reánk, a Földre,
égi tudást, jó kedvet –
mi nektek adjuk szellemek
ott fönn a ritka mennyeket.

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Translation from German (Deutsch) to Hungarian (Magyar) copyright © 2015 by Tamás Rédey, (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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Menschengefühl"
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This text was added to the website: 2015-01-20
Line count: 6
Word count: 27