Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen | Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT ENG ENG FRE

Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen,
Ist eine kleine, tote Stadt,
Die Kirchen und viel Ruinen hat,
Man kann davon in den Büchern lesen.

Du gehst hindurch und schaust dich um,
Die Straßen sind so trüb und naß
Und sind so tausendjährig stumm,
Und überall wächst Moos und Gras!

Das ist wie alte Lieder sind,
Man hört sie an und keiner lacht
Ein jeder lauscht und jeder sinnt
Hernach daran bis in die Nacht.

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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 77.

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), no title, written 1901, appears in Unterwegs, in Ravenna (1901), no. 1, first published 1911 [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 Volkmar Andreae (1879 - 1962), "Ravenna", op. 23 (Vier Gedichte von Hermann Hesse) no. 1, published 1913 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernst Friedrich Faesi , "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", <<1941 [ alto and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alfred Valentin Heuß (1877 - 1934), "Ravenna", op. 8 no. 1, published 1918 [ voice and piano ], from Städtebilder. Vier Lieder, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Kracke (1910 - 1989), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", published 1955 [ four or five-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Ravenna", op. 30 no. 1, published 1962 [ baritone and piano ], from Sieben Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ludwig Helmuth Walter Kusche (1901 - 1982), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen ", op. 6 no. 2 (1924), published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vier Italienlieder für mittlere Stimme nach Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Maux (1893 - 1971), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", op. 181 no. 3, op. 95 (Zwei Lieder) no. 1 (1919), published 1941 [ high voice or medium-high voice and piano ], from Italische Reise, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walter A. Pfeiffer , "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm Peter Radt (1899 - ?), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", 1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Bernhard Rövenstrunck (1920 - 2010), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen ", 1946 [ mezzo-soprano and guitar ], from Zwei Lieder für Mezzosopran und Gitarre nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen ", 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Othmar Schoeck (1886 - 1957), "Ravenna", op. 24b no. 9 (1913), published 1917 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder nach Gedichten von Spitteler, Gamper, Hesse und Keller, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Suitner (b. 1928), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen ", op. 92e [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by (Carl Theodor) Oskar Ulmer (1883 - 1966), "Ich bin auch in Ravenna gewesen", op. 36 no. 1 (1934?) [ alto or baritone and orchestra ], from Ravenna: Zwei Impressionen, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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