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Solang du nach dem Glücke jagst, Bist du nicht reif zum Glücklichsein Und wäre alles Liebste dein. [Solang]1 du um Verlornes klagst Und Ziele hast und rastlos bist, Weißt du noch nicht, was Friede ist. Erst wenn du jedem Wunsch entsagst, Nicht [Ziel]2 mehr, noch Begehren kennst, Das Glück nicht mehr mit Namen nennst, Dann reicht dir des Geschehens Flut Nicht mehr ans Herz, und deine Seele ruht.
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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 164.
1 Kilpinen : "Solange" (?)
2 Kilpinen : "Ziele" (?)
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Glück", written 1907 [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 Rudolf Brömel (b. 1877), "Glück", published 1945-8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermann Hesse Lieder, no. 20 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Glück", op. 157 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 5 (1961) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Albert Gorter (1862 - 1936), "Glück", op. 25 (Fünf Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse) no. 3 (1959) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alois Heiduczek (1902 - 1973), "Glück" [ four-part women's chorus a cappella ], from Vier vierstimmige Frauenchöre a cappella nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hansjakob Heuken (1904 - 1985), "Glück", published 1953 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by K. E. Hoffmann , "Glück" [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Hermann Hesse-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Glück", op. 97 no. 6 (>>1942?), from Liederfolge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Kracke (1910 - 1989), "Glück", 1947 [ voice and piano ], from Trost der Nacht - Liederzyklus nach neun Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Harald Kruse (1923 - 1988), "Glück", op. 1 no. 1 (1947) [ low voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Felix Moschner , "Glück", 1955 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Martin Rössler (b. 1934), "Glück", 1958 [ soprano and piano ], from Unterwegs - Liederzyklus für Sopran und Klavier nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Theresia Schlechtriem (b. 1940), "Glück", published 1979 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Drei Chorlieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Glück", op. 42a no. 17 (1977) [ medium voice and piano ], from Stufen - Hesse-Lieder 1977 für mittlere Singstimme, no. 17 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Carl Theodor) Oskar Ulmer (1883 - 1966), "Glück", op. 38 (Zwei Gedichte von Hermann Hesse ) no. 1 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fried Walter (1907 - 1996), "Glück", 1977 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Sechs Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Anton Würz (1903 - 1995), "Glück", 1947 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinz Zabel , "Glück", <<1949 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Felicitat", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Walter A. Aue) , "Happiness", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Happiness", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Bonheur", copyright © 2011, (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: 2009-05-06
Line count: 11
Word count: 68
As long as you pursue happiness, You are not ready to be happy Even if all the most dear things were yours. As long as you complain about that which is lost And have goals and are restless, You do not yet know what peace is. Only when you have renounced every wish, [When you] no longer know either [goal]1 or desire, No longer call happiness by name, Then the floodwaters of the events [of life] No longer rise to your heart, and your soul rests.
1 Kilpinen : "goals" (?)
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2018 by Sharon Krebs, (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 Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Glück", written 1907
This text was added to the website: 2018-06-19
Line count: 11
Word count: 86