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"Tapetenblume bin ich fein, kehr' wieder ohne Ende, doch statt im Mai'n und Mondenschein, auf jeder der vier Wände. Du siehst mich nimmerdar genung, so weit du blickst im Stübchen, und folgst du mir per Rösselsprung - wirst du verrückt, mein Liebchen."
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Authorship
- by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "Tapetenblume" [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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Tapetenblume", 2010 [soprano and piano], from Zehn Morgenstern-lieder, no. 5 [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Erik Bergman (1911 - 2006), "Tapetenblume", op. 51b (Vier Galgenlieder (Four Gallows Songs)) no. 2 (1960), first performed 1961 [3 speakers and speaking (mixed) chorus] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Willy Burkhard (1900 - 1955), "Tapetenblume", op. 22, Heft 1 (Chorduette nach Gedichten aus "Palma Kunkel" von Christian Morgenstern) no. 3 (1928) [men's chorus and trumpet] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962), "Couplet von der Tapetenblume", op. 5 no. 5 (1924), stanza 1? [speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and violoncello], from Palmström, no. 5 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Richard Farber (b. 1945), "Tapetenblume", from Galgenlieder, no. 33 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Peter Korff , "Tapetenblumen" [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Sebastian Peschko (1909 - 1987), "Tapetenblume", from Lieder nach Gedichten von Chr. Morgenstern, no. 4 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "Wallpaper flowers", rhymed paraphrase, copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Kukkanen tapetissa", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-07-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 42
Minä olen kukkanen tapetissa ja hieno olenkin toistun ja palaan luoksesi loputtomasti, en kuitenkaan kevään kuutamolla vaan huoneen kaikilla neljällä seinällä. Milloinkaan et näe minua tarpeeksesi, vaikka kuinka tuijottaisit ympärillesi tupasessasi, ja jos yrität seurata minua kuin hevonen shakkipelissä, tulet kyllä hulluksi, kultaseni.
Authorship
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to Finnish (Suomi) copyright © 2009 by Erkki Pullinen, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Christian Morgenstern (1871 - 1914), "Tapetenblume"
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 43