Whence comes your art, oh nightingale? | Whence comes your art, oh nightingale?

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by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Wo hast du deine Künste her, o...

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Wo hast du deine Künste her, o Nachtigall? --
  „Ich danke sie der Liebe zu der Rose. 
Die füllt die Kehle mir mit eitel Wonneschall;
  Nichts ist ja mein Gesang, der amorose,
Als innerer Musik melod'scher Widerhall,
  Als meiner Brust Gekose mit der Rose.”

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Confirmed with Hafis. Neue Sammlung. Von G. F. Daumer, Verlag von Bauer & Raspe in Nürnberg, 1852, page 48.

Text Authorship:

by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis. Neue Sammlung, in 1. Erstes Buch, no. 40, first published 1852 [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 Ludwig Grünberger (1839 - 1896), "Wo hast du deine Künste her, o Nachtigall?", op. 18 (Drei Nachtigallenlieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1877 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Whence comes your art, oh nightingale?", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-23
Line count: 6
Word count: 43

Whence comes your art, oh nightingale?

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Whence comes your art, oh nightingale?
  "I owe it to my love of the rose,
[The rose] fills my throat with nothing but blissful sound;
  For my song, my amorous song, is nothing
But the melodic echo of inner music,
  [Nothing] but the caresses my breast exchanged with the rose."

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875), no title, appears in Hafis. Neue Sammlung, in 1. Erstes Buch, no. 40, first published 1852
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This text was added to the website: 2020-07-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 50