Ich sagte nicht: ich liebe dich. Ich sagte nur: gib mir die Hand Und dulde mich! Mir schien, du wärest mir verwandt, Du wärst so jung und gut, wie ich... - Ich sagte nicht: ich liebe dich.
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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 73.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Rücknahme", written 1901 [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 Manfred Frischknecht (b. 1937), "Rücknahme", 1953 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Gál (1890 - 1987), "Rücknahme", 1914 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rudolph Ganz (1877 - 1972), "Rücknahme", op. 11 (Lieder und Gesänge) no. 1, published 1908 [ voice and piano ], missing [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Sándor Jemnitz (1890 - 1963), "Rücknahme", op. 2 (Neun Lieder) no. 2, published 1917 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Carl Jungwirth , "Rücknahme", 1921 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georg Meerwein (b. 1932), "Rücknahme ", 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fritz Müller (1889 - 1949), "Rücknahme ", op. 1 no. 2, published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl von Szelle , "Rücknahme ", 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Sechszehn [sic] Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Retraction", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Abandon", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-25
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