Jeg elsker Dig | Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden

by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)

Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden

Language: Danish (Dansk)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER IRI JPN

Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden,
Du er mit Hjertes første Kærlighed.
Jeg elsker Dig, som Ingen her på Jorden,
Jeg elsker Dig i Tid og Evighed!

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Text Authorship:

by Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875), "Min Tankes Tanke", written 1833, from Samlede Digte - Epigrammatiske Digte XII [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 Tor Aulin (1866 - 1914), "Jeg elsker dig", published 1889 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), "Jeg elsker Dig", op. 5 no. 3 (1864-1865), published 1865 [ voice and piano ], from Hjertets melodier, no. 3, Copenhagen, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller (1850 - 1926), "Min Tankes Tanke ene du er vorden " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by (Johan Gustaf) Emil Sjögren (1853 - 1918), "Romans", 1895 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in English, a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz von Holstein (1826 - 1878) , "Ich liebe dich" [an adaptation] ; composed by Edvard Grieg, Otto Hohlfeld, Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger.
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