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"Dem Auge fern, dem Herzen nah!" Als ich die alte Grabschrift sah Im eingesunknen Marmorstein, Da fiel mein totes Lieb mir ein. O Gott, ich schrieb schon tausendmal Das gleiche Lied aus gleicher Qual, Und war doch keins wie dieses da: "Dem Auge fern, dem Herzen nah!"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Alban Maria Johannes Berg (1885 - 1935), "Grabschrift", 1904 [voice and piano], from the collection Jugendlieder, Vol. I (1901-04), no. 31. [text verified 1 time]
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- FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , title 1: "Épitaphe", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Jean-Pierre Granger) , title 1: "Epitaph", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Jakob Kellner
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:35
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« Far from the eyes, close to the heart » As I saw that epitaph Deeply engraved in the marblestone, The memory of my deceased love came back to me Oh my God ! I have already written a thousand times The same song of that same torment, And none was like this one : « Far from the eyes, close to the heart ! »
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- Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2011 by Jean-Pierre Granger, (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 Ludwig Jacobowski (1868 - 1900)
Text added to the website: 2011-04-01 00:00:00
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