Wer den Weg nach innen fand, Wer in glühndem Sichversenken Je der Weisheit Kern geahnt, Daß sein Sinn sich Gott und Welt Nur als Bild und Gleichnis wähle: Ihm wird jedes Tun und Denken Zwiegespräch mit seiner eignen Seele, Welche Welt und Gott enthält.
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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 246.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Weg nach Innen", written 1918 [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 Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Weg nach innen" [ high voice and piano ], from Lieder für eine höhere Singstimme nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Will Eisenmann (1906 - 1992), "Weg nach innen", 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Fleischer (1896 - 1981), "Weg nach innen", op. 157 (6 Lieder für mittlere Stimme und Klavier) no. 4 (1961) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alois Heiduczek (1902 - 1973), "Weg nach innen" [ four-part women's chorus a cappella ], from Vier vierstimmige Frauenchöre a cappella nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans-Hermann Kurig (1914 - 2002), "Weg nach Innen" [ voice and piano ], from Trost der Nacht - Ein Zyklus in fünf Liedern nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Helmut Paulsen (b. 1909), "Weg nach innen", <<1942 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sieben besinnliche Lieder, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Martin Schlensog (b. 1897), "Wer den Weg nach innen fand", 1941 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Zwei Sprüche von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Weg nach Innen", op. 42a no. 15 (1977) [ medium voice and piano ], from Stufen - Hesse-Lieder 1977 für mittlere Singstimme, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904 - 1985), "Weg nach Innen", published 1950 [ SAT chorus a cappella ], from Vom Baum des Lebens - Fünf Gedichte von Hermann Hesse für Chor a cappella, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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