Giorno di lavoro | Vaghiamo da più di cento anni

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by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857)

Translation © by Ferdinando Albeggiani

Wir wandern nun schon viel hundert Jahr

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ITA

Wir wandern nun schon viel hundert Jahr
Und kommen doch nicht zur Stelle -
Der Strom wohl rauscht an die tausend gar
Und kommt doch nicht zur Quelle.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• H. Pfitzner

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Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's Werke. Erster Theil. Gedichte. Berlin. Verlegt von M. Simion. 1841, page 357; and with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's sämmtliche Werke. Zweite Auflage. Erster Band. Leipzig, Voigt & Günther. 1864, page 577, as no. 1 of Sprüche.

Text Authorship:

by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Werktag", appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte, in Sprüche, no. 1, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, first published 1837 [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 Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869 - 1949), "Wir wandern nun schon viel hundert Jahr", op. 28, Heft 2 no. 2, published 1921, first performed 1922 [ mixed chorus and orchestra ], from Von deutscher Seele - Teil II - Leben und Singen, no. 2, Adolph Fürstner, Berlin [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Giorno di lavoro", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2009-07-06
Line count: 4
Word count: 27

Giorno di lavoro

Language: Italian (Italiano) after the German (Deutsch)

Vaghiamo da più di cento anni
E non giungiamo mai alla meta,
il fiume scroscia già da millenni,
eppure non arriva alla sorgente.

Text Authorship:

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Werktag", appears in Gedichte, in 6. Geistliche Gedichte, in Sprüche, no. 1, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, first published 1837
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This text was added to the website: 2009-09-01
Line count: 4
Word count: 23