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Seltsam schöne Hügelfluchten, Dunkle Berge, helle Matten, Rote Felsen, braune Schluchten, Überflort von Tannenschatten! Wenn darüber eines Turmes Frommes Läuten mit dem Rauschen Sich vermischt des Tannensturmes, Kann ich lange Stunden lauschen. Dann ergreift wie eine Sage, Nächtlich am Kamin gelesen, Das Gedächnis mich der Tage, Da ich hier zu Haus gewesen. Da die Fernen edler, weicher, Da die tannenforstbekränzten Berge seliger und reicher Mir im Knabenauge glänzten.
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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 75.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Schwarzwald", written 1901, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Von Wanderungen, first published 1919 [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 Rudolf Brömel (b. 1877), "Schwarzwald", published 1945-8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermann Hesse Lieder, no. 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Theophil Laitenberger (1903 - 1996), "Schwarzwald" [ mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hermann Ophoven (1914 - 2004), "Schwarzwald", published 1957 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Schwarzwald", op. 42a no. 13 (1977) [ medium voice and piano ], from Stufen - Hesse-Lieder 1977 für mittlere Singstimme, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "The Black Forest", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Forêt Noire", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 68
Strangely lovely alignments of hills, Dark mountains, bright meadows, Red rocky cliffs, brown gullies, Suffused with the shadows of pines! When the pious pealing Of a tower mingles with the soughing Of the storm of pines, I can listen for many long hours. Then I am gripped as if by A legend read nightly at the fireplace, By the memory of the days When this was my home. When the distances more nobly, more softly, When the pine-forest-crowned mountains More blissfully and more richly Shone in my eyes as a young lad.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Schwarzwald", written 1901, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Von Wanderungen, first published 1919
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 92