Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten, Ich will nur im Vorübergehn An deine Stufen treten Und deine Augen sehn. Es ist ein reines Glänzen Um deine Stirn, das mich beglückt; Ich habe sie ja mit Kränzen Als Kind so oft geschmückt.
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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 105.
Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1901, appears in Marienlieder, no. 1 [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 Erich Jeromin , "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Walther Klein (1882 - 1961), "Marienlied", published 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ivan Langstroht , "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten ", 1925 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reinhold Laquai (1894 - 1957), "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten " [ medium voice and piano or organ ], from Hesse-Lieder für mittlere Stimme mit Klavier- oder Orgelbegleitung, Heft 3: Marienlieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lise Maria Mayer (1894 - 1968), "Marienlied", op. 11 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3, published 1914 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph A. Rinaldini (1893 - 1977), "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten ", published 1928 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten", op. 11 no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], from Drei Marien-Lieder für höhere Stimme und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Straumann (1889 - 1973), "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten ", 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Zintl (1903 - 1987), "Schilt nicht! Ich kann nicht beten", <<1949 [ baritone and piano ], from Drei Marienlieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
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