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[Wo die]1 Rose hier blüht, wo Reben um Lorbeer sich schlingen, Wo das Turtelchen lockt, wo sich das Grillchen ergötzt, Welch ein Grab ist hier, das alle Götter mit Leben Schön bepflanzt und geziert? Es ist Anakreons Ruh. Frühling, Sommer, und Herbst genoß der glückliche Dichter, Vor dem Winter hat ihn endlich der Hügel geschützt.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Goethe's Gedichte, Hamburg, Gedruckt bey Friedrich Hermann Nestler, Hamburg, 1813, page 145.
1 Goldschmidt: "Wo"Text Authorship:
- by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Anakreons Grab" [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 Michael Brough (b. 1960), "Anakreons Grab", op. 15 (24 Lieder) no. 18 (>>2000) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848 - 1906), "Am Grabe Anakreons" [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alfred Valentin Heuß (1877 - 1934), "Anakreons Grab" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lenhuk , "Anakreons Grab", published <<1815 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gedichte von Goethe und Schiller, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Olav) Fartein Valen (1887 - 1952), "Anakreons Grab", op. 31 (Zwei Lieder für Sopran und Klavier) no. 2 (1939) [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Anakreons Grab", 1888-9, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 29, Mainz, Schott
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La tomba d’Anacreont", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Anacreon's grave", copyright ©
- FRE French (Français) (Catherine Beloin) , "Le tombeau d'Anakreon", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 56
Here, where the rose blooms, where vines entwine the laurel, Where the turtledove flirts, where the cricket delights - What grave is this here, that all the gods Have so beautifully graced with verdant life? It is Anacreon's resting-place. Spring, summer, and autumn did that happy poet enjoy; From winter, at last, has this mound protected him.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf.
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), "Anakreons Grab"
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 56