Kennst du das auch? | Kennst du das auch, daß manches Mal

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Kennst du das auch?

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Kennst du das auch, daß manches Mal
Inmitten einer lauten Lust,
Bei einem Fest, in einem frohen Saal,
Du plötzlich schweigen und hinweggehn mußt? 

Denn legst du dich aufs Lager ohne Schlaf
Wie Einer, den ein plötzlich Heimweh traf;
Lust und Gelächter ist verstiebt wie Rauch,
Du weinst, weinst ohne Halt -- Kennst du das auch?

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 91.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Kennst du das auch?", written 1901 [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 Hermann Grabner (1886 - 1969), "Kennst du das auch?", 1950/1 [ voice and piano ], from Acht Hermann Hesse-Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erwin Hauff (1894 - 1960), "Kennst du das auch?", 1927 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Jochum (1898 - 1969), "Kennst du das auch?", op. 139 no. 4 (<<1953) [ low voice and oboe with speaker ad libitum ], from Stufen der Einsamkeit, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leo Kieslich (1882 - 1956), "Kennst du das auch?" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Erich Kirschner , "Kennst du das auch?" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Kennst du das auch? ", op. 33 no. 2 [ high voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für hohe Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Kennst du das auch?", op. 24b no. 4 (1906), published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Spitteler, Gamper, Hesse und Keller, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Carl von Szelle , "Kennst du das auch? ", 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Sechszehn [sic] Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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