by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935)
Von diesem Kreis, in dem wir hier uns...
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Persian (Farsi)
Von diesem Kreis, in dem wir hier uns drehn, Kann ich nicht Anfangspunkt, nicht Endpunkt sehn. Noch keiner sagt' mir, wo wir kamen her, Und keiner weiß, wohin von hier wir [gehn]1. --
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam aus dem Persischen übertragen von Friedrich Rosen, II. Vermehrte Auflage, Stuttgart und Berlin, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1912, page 47.
1 Blacher: "gehen"Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich Rosen (1856 - 1935), no title, appears in Die Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers Rubaijat-I-Omar-I-Khajjam, no. 44 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Boris Blacher (1903 - 1975), "Von diesem Kreis, in dem wir hier uns drehn", 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], from Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers, no. 2, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 42, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 42, first published 1872 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir, Henry Houseley.
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970) , appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie ; composed by René Lenormand.
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