by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841)
Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher...
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG
Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher Weltgebieter, Und hell umleuchte dich des Glückes Sonnenlicht, Der Erdengüter Glanz: du hast nur Erdengüter; Glückseligkeit, die hast du nicht.
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Text Authorship:
- by Christoph August Tiedge (1752 - 1841), no title, appears in Urania, in Dritter Gesang (Leben. Glückseligkeit. Wahrheit) [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 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel (1765 - 1814), "Sei groß, sei stolz, ein hoher Weltgebieter", 1814, published 1880, from Gesänge aus Tiedge's Urania, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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