Wind | Wind makes intelligent people from fools

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by Daniel Stoppe (1697 - 1747)

Translation © by Poppy Holden

Wind macht aus Toren kluge Leute

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wind macht aus Toren kluge Leute;
durch wind verdient der Narr sein Brodt:
durch Wind kann man die krümmsten Sachen
mit leichter [Mühe g'rade]¹ machen;
Wind dient vor alle unglücksfälle, vor alles,
nur nicht vor den Tod;
Wind macht aus Toren kluge Leute;
durch Wind verdient der Narr sein Brot.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Telemann

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Confirmed with Erste Sammlung von Daniel Stoppens [sic] teutschen Gedichten, Franckfurt und Leipzig: Zu finden bey Joh. Heinr. Schrödern, 1742, page 97.

¹ Telemann: "Müh' gerade"

Text Authorship:

by Daniel Stoppe (1697 - 1747), "Aria" [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 Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), "Wind" [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

Research team for this page: Poppy Holden , Melanie Trumbull

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

Wind

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Wind makes intelligent people from fools; 
with wind the fool earns his bread: 
by wind one can the crookedest things
with less effort make straight;
wind serves with all accidents, 
with everything, only not with death; 
wind makes intelligent people from fools; 
with wind the fool earns his bread.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Daniel Stoppe (1697 - 1747), "Aria"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 49