Soll ich sagen, was ich träume An beglänzten, sonnenstillen Hügeln Haine dunkler Bäume, Gelbe Felsen, weiße Villen. Eine Stadt im Tal gelegen, Eine Stadt mit marmorweißen Kirchen leuchtet mir entgegen, Und sie ist Florenz geheißen. Und in einem alten Garten, Eingehegt von schmalen Gassen, Muß das Glück noch auf mich warten, Das ich dort zurückgelassen.
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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, pages 74-75.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Im Norden", written 1901, appears in Neue deutsche Lyriker III , in Süden, 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- by Christian Knayer (1876 - 1932), "Im Norden" [ medium voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Im Norden", op. 46 no. 2, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ludwig Helmuth Walter Kusche (1901 - 1982), "Im Norden", op. 6 no. 1 (1924), published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier Italienlieder für mittlere Stimme nach Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Richard Maux (1893 - 1971), "Florenz", op. 181 no. 1 (1928), published 1941 [ high voice or medium-high voice and piano ], from Italische Reise, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "In the north", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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