by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)
Spielmannssehnen
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Küssen und Kosen steht euch an. Wer nähme ernst den Fiedelmann! Und ist mir doch so bitterweh, wenn ich zwei Liebesleute seh verschwiegen unter Linden . . Ach Glück und Liebe, wie fern, wie fern! Und möchte doch so bittergern eine treue Seele finden . . .
Confirmed with Sehnen und Suchen, Vierte Auflage, Rostock: C.J.E. Volckmann (Volckman & Wetter), 1905, page 82.
Authorship:
- by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Spielmannssehnen", appears in Sehnen und Suchen: Gedichte, in Schweifen, o Schweifen!, in Spielmannslieder [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 Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "Spielmannssehnen", op. 77 no. 5 (1932-3), from Spielmannslieder, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philippine Schick (1893 - 1970), "Spielmannssehnen", op. 40 no. 3 (1939), first performed 1940 [ tenor and piano ], from Sechs Spielmannslieder, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Spielmannssehnen", op. 18 no. 2 (1908) [ voice and piano ], from Der Spielmann, no. 2, manuscript held in H. K. Schmid-Archiv, Landau an der Isar [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Alexander K. Puhrer) , "Minstrel's Longing", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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