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Cine m-aude cîntînd, Zice că n-am nici un gînd. Gîndul care-l gîndesc eu, Nu î-l deie Dumnezeu. Că nu cînt că știu cînta, Dami mai stîmpăr inima.
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Confirmed with Mircea Goga, Une île de latinité. Culture, civilisation, langue et littérature roumaines, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006, page 287.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Tiberiu Brediceanu (1877 - 1968), "Cine m-aude cîntînd" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , no title, copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Bertram Kottmann , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-03-24
Line count: 6
Word count: 27
Jeder, der mich singen hört, meint, dass mich wohl nichts beschwert. Doch das, was mich beschwert und lenkt, ward mir nicht von Gott geschenkt: Weil ich es kann, singe ich nicht - ich sing, weil mir das Herze bricht.
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- Singable translation from Romanian (Română) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2020 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in Romanian (Română) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , no title
This text was added to the website: 2020-05-01
Line count: 6
Word count: 39