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[Du]1 bist, mein [fernes]2 Tal, Verzaubert und versunken. Oft hast du mir in Not und Qual Empor aus deinem Schattenland gewunken Und deine Mädchenaugen aufgetan, Daß ich entzückt in kurzem Wahn Mich ganz zu dir zurück verlor. O dunkles Tor, O dunkle Todesstunde, Komm du heran, daß ich gesunde Und daß aus dieses Lebens Leere Ich heim zu meinen Träumen kehre!
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 195.
1 Schwarz: "O Kindheit, du"2 Stier: "stilles"
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Die Kindheit", written 1912 [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 Franz Bauer , "Die Kindheit", 1943-8 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Die Kindheit" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder für Gesang und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolf Emil Fecker (1901 - ?), "Die Kindheit" [ voice, violin, and piano ], from Drei Lieder mit Violine und Klavierbegleitung, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Albert Gorter (1862 - 1936), "Die Kindheit", op. 25 (Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 5 (1959) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philip Hammond , "Die Kindheit" [ voice and piano ], from Traume [sic] - Three Settings of Poems by Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Die Kindheit", op. 98 no. 7 (1942), from Herbst, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Werner Kuck (1891 - ?), "Die Kindheit ", op. 19 no. 1, op. 46 no. 5 [ voice and piano ], from Sieben Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Maurer (1898 - 1959), "Die Kindheit " [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Ludwig Meyer-Olbersleben (1898 - 1991), "Die Kindheit ", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959), "Die Kindheit" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johannes Nørgaard (b. 1916), "Die Kindheit ", published 1961 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Tre Korsange til tekster af Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Österreicher (b. 1906), "Die Kindheit ", published 1953 [ unaccompanied voice ], from Drei Gesänge nach Texten von Hermann Hesse für eine Stimme allein, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hildegard Quiel (1888 - 1971), "Die Kindheit " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinrich Rückler , "Die Kindheit " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Die Kindheit", op. 31 (Fünf Lieder für eine Singstimme und Klavier) no. 2 (1914/5), published 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Käthe Schumann , "Die Kindheit", 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für Sopran und Klavier, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karl Franz Schwarz , "Kindheit", 1948 [ voice and piano (or orchestra?) ], from Musik des Einsamen, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Stier (1880 - 1968), "Die Kindheit ", <<1954 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Josef von Vintschger (b. 1900), "Die Kindheit ", <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Voelkner , "Die Kindheit ", op. 27 no. 4, first performed 1932 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903 - 1969), "Die Kindheit ", published 1970 [ baritone and piano ], from Hermann-Hesse-Lieder, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Werner Wehrli (1892 - 1944), "Die Kindheit ", op. 23 no. 1, published 1928 [ low voice, violin, and piano ], from Fünf Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Die Kindheit ", op. 11 no. 12, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Zweiter Liederkreis - 15 Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 12 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 61
[You]1 are, my [distant]2 valley, Enchanted and rapt. In affliction and agony you have often Waved to me from your shadowland And opened your maiden-eyes, So that, enraptured in a short illusion, I completely lost myself back to you. Oh dark gateway, Oh dark hour of death, Approach that I might be healed And that from out of this life’s emptiness I may return home to my dreams!
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View original text (without footnotes)Translations of title(s):
"Die Kindheit" = "Childhood"
"Kindheit" = "Childhood"
2 Stier: "quiet"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Die Kindheit", written 1912
This text was added to the website: 2017-10-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 68