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Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind, Wird täglich abgeschmackter! Sie spricht von dir, mein schönes Kind: Du hast keinen guten Charakter. Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind, Und dich wird sie immer verkennen; Sie weiß nicht, wie süß deine Küsse sind, Und wie sie beseligend brennen.
Confirmed with Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1827, page 123.
Authorship
- by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 15 [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 Vladimir Castrioto-Scanderberg (1820 - 1879), "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind", from Andenken an Horodetz : Sechs Lieder von Heine, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Horwitz , "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind", op. 2 no. 1, from Aus Heine's lyrischem Intermezzo : Liederzyklus, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Norbert Linke (b. 1933), "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind", published 1959 [ male voice and piano ], from Sechs Heine-Lieder, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar Strasnoy (b. 1970), "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind" [ duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], from Heine, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joel Weiss , "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind", 2016 [ voice and piano ], from Heine Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arturo Buzzi-Peccia.
- Also set in Ukrainian (Українська), a translation by Maksim Antonivich Slavinsky (1868? - 1945?) ; composed by Mykola Vitaliyovych Lysenko.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (James Thomson) , "Die Welt ist dumm, die Welt ist blind", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 61, first published 1887
- FRE French (Français) (Charles Beltjens) , no title, appears in Intermezzo lyrique, no. 15, first published 1827
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Pierre Mathé [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-21
Line count: 8
Word count: 50
Le monde est sot, le monde est aveugle, Chaque jour il devient plus banal ! Il dit de toi, ma belle enfant Que tu n'as pas bon caractère. Le monde est sot, le monde est aveugle, Et il te méconnaîtra toujours ; Il ne sait pas combien doux sont tes baisers, Et comme ils brûlent de félicité.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Buch der Lieder, in Lyrisches Intermezzo, no. 15
This text was added to the website: 2016-12-02
Line count: 8
Word count: 57