by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Friedrich (or Fritz) 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 gehen.
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- by Friedrich (or Fritz) Rosen (1856 - 1935) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- 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 GER ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
Researcher for this text: Peter Schoene
This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
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Word count: 32