O wundervoller Meisterlaut, Wie gibst du meinem Lustverlangen Gleich einer schönen, zarten Braut So scheu und zitternd dich gefangen! O höchste, atemlose Lust, Wenn deine Töne wachsend steigen, Dich so zu halten Brust an Brust, Du schlanke Königin der Geigen! So süß, so warm aus tiefstem Grund, So selig aus der Brust gesungen Ist mir von keines Weibes Mund Ein Liebeslaut ans Herz gedrungen.
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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 47.
Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Stradivari", written 1899, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in An die Schönheit, in Der Geiger, no. 1, first published 1919 [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 Richard Czelinski (1901 - 1969), "Stradivari", op. 3 no. 1 (1948) [ voice, piano, and violin ], from Der Geiger - Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hans Wolfgang Sachsse (1891 - 1960), "Intrada - Stradivari ", op. 17 no. 1 [ baritone, violin, and piano ], from Partita für Violine, Bariton und Klavier auf die Worte des Zyklus "Der Geiger" von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Stradivarius", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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