by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)
Translation © by Erich Adolf Saudek (1904 - 1963)
Das Angenehme dieser Welt hab' ich...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Das Angenehme dieser Welt hab' ich genossen, [Die Jugendstunden sind]1, wie lang! wie lang! verflossen, April und Mai und Julius sind ferne, Ich bin nichts mehr, ich lebe nicht mehr gerne!
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Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt...", appears in Späteste Gedichte 1806-1843 [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 Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", op. 109 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 2 (1938) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Fragment", 1933 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", from Hölderlin-Lieder: Zweiter Zyklus, no. 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Michael Komma (1913 - 2012), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt", 1970 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Das Angenehme", 1962, copyright © 1979, first performed 1979 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux poèmes de Friedrich Hölderlin, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Erich Adolf Saudek (1904 - 1963) , copyright © ; composed by Gideon Klein.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John H. Campbell) , "I have enjoyed this agreeable world", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Michael Komma
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 33
Madrigal
Language: Czech (Čeština) after the German (Deutsch)
Co příjemného dává svět, jsem měl [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Erich Adolf Saudek (1904 - 1963), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "Das Angenehme dieser Welt...", appears in Späteste Gedichte 1806-1843
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gideon Klein (1919 - 1945), "Madrigal", 1943 [2 sopranos, alto, tenor, bass] [ sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2017-03-23
Line count: 5
Word count: 34