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by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Translation by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904)

Mittelalterliche Roheit
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Mittelalterliche Roheit
Weicht dem Aufschwung schöner Künste:
Instrument moderner Bildung
Ist vorzüglich das Klavier.

Auch die Eisenbahnen wirken
Heilsam aufs Familienleben,
Sintemal sie uns erleichtern
Die Entfernung von der Sippschaft.

Wie bedaur ich, daß die Darre
Meines Rückgratmarks mich hindert,
Lange Zeit noch zu verweilen
In dergleichen Fortschrittswelt!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Nachgelesene Gedichte 1845-1856, no. 46 [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):

  • by Derek Healey (b. 1936), "Fortschrittswelt", op. 137 no. 7 (2014) [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Heinelieder, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Mittelalterliche Roheit", 1994-5, published c1998 [ tenor and piano ], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung II, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Roland Moser (b. 1943), "Mittelalterliche Roheit", published 1985, from Heinelieder, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Kate Freiligrath Kroeker) , "Mittelalterliche Roheit", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 270, first published 1887


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-10-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 48

Mittelalterliche Roheit
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch) 
Rude mediaeval barbarism
  To fine arts is slowly yielding;
Chief machine of modern culture
  Is undoubtedly the Piano.

Railways, too, a wholesome influence,
  Exercise on home life, surely,
For they render it so easy
  From one's family to fly.

What a pity that my spinal
  Illness renders it unlikely
That I shall remain much longer
  In this fast progressive world!

Text Authorship:

  • by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904), "Mittelalterliche Roheit", appears in Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine, ed. by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker, London: Walter Scott, Limited, page 270, first published 1887 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in German (Deutsch) by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Nachgelesene Gedichte 1845-1856, no. 46
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-01-18
Line count: 12
Word count: 60

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