Zoo de blâren, die verdorden, is het nieuwjaar oud geworden: God alleene, on- menigvoud, altijd nieuwe en altijd oud, zal van de oude en de andere dagen, die gij leeft, eens reden vragen.
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Text Authorship:
- by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, written 1891, appears in Tijdkrans, in Nieuwjaarmaand, no. 1a [author's text checked 1 time 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):
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962) , "Neujahr", appears in Gedichte, in Die Übersetzungen, in Aus dem Niederländischen ; composed by Armin Knab.
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Wie die Blätter, Die verdorrten, Ist das Neujahr Alt geworden. Gott allein un- Mannigfalt, Allzeit neu und Allzeit alt, Wird von alt- und Andern Tagen, So du lebst, einst Rechnung fragen.
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Confirmed with Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Gesammelte Werke in Fünf Bänden, Erster Band, Die Gedichte, Berlin und Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1952, page 621.
Text Authorship:
- by Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878 - 1962), "Neujahr", appears in Gedichte, in Die Übersetzungen, in Aus dem Niederländischen [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Dutch (Nederlands) by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title, written 1891, appears in Tijdkrans, in Nieuwjaarmaand, no. 1a
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Neujahr" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
Research team for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2022-01-22
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