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possibly by Friedrich von Gerstenberg and possibly by Heinrich (Hans) Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737 - 1823) and possibly by Georg Friedrich Konrad Ludwig Gerstenbergk (1780 - 1838)

Wo kommst du her?"
Language: German (Deutsch) 
"Wo kommst du her?"
Weiß nicht!
Wo Wolken gehn
Sonnenhöh'n;
wo nah die Sterne steh'n; 
weit, weit! So sagt's das Weh'n
des Geistes, der mich rief,
als unten tief 
ich schlief.

"Verweilst du hier?"
Weiß nicht! 
Doch ist dies Land, 
wo ich mich fand, 
vielmehr mir unbekannt, 
als jenes, das mir schwand. 
Fern hör' ich süssen Gruß; 
der irre Fuß 
fort muß.

"Wo willst du hin?"
Weiß nicht! 
O frage nicht! 
Weiß Sonnenlicht, 
wohin es zündend bricht, 
vom Himmelsangesicht?
Es winkt der Geist uns zu, 
wo ich und du 
find' Ruh'.

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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Friedrich von Gerstenberg  [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • possibly by Heinrich (Hans) Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737 - 1823) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
  • possibly by Georg Friedrich Konrad Ludwig Gerstenbergk (1780 - 1838) [author's text not yet checked 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 Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Wo kommst du her?", H-U 110 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869), "Der Komet", op. 69 no. 6 (1836), note: the score attributes the text only to 'Gerstenberg' [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: John H. Campbell

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 27
Word count: 91

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