While going to sleep | Now that the day has made me so tired

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by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Nun der Tag mich müd gemacht

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT DUT ENG ENG FRE FRI ITA NOR SAN SPA

[Nun]¹ der Tag mich [müd]² gemacht,
Soll mein sehnliches Verlangen
Freundlich die gestirnte Nacht
Wie ein müdes Kind empfangen. 

Hände, laßt von allem Tun,
Stirn vergiß du alles Denken,
Alle meine Sinne nun
Wollen sich in Schlummer senken. 

Und die Seele unbewacht
Will in freien Flügen schweben,
Um im Zauberkreis der Nacht
Tief und tausendfach zu leben.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Beckert • R. Brömel • W. Bühler • R. Czelinski • F. Dietsch • H. Frank • J. Gessinger • J. Gessinger • R. Gress • E. Gutknecht • W. Hecklinger • H. Hoffmann • H. Kracke • F. Krause • N. Kreismann • W. Lache • F. Lubrich • O. Maurer • H. Petersen-Vietor • K. Petsch • E. Reichert • H. Sälter • T. Schlechtriem • C. Schneider • W. Schulthess • H. Schultz • K. Sochatzy • A. Stier • R. Strauss • B. Stürmer • P. Voelkner • R. Wagner-Régeny • F. Walter • J. Wetzel • R. Zimmermann

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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, page 216.

¹ Reichert: "Wenn"
² Lubrich: "still"

Text Authorship:

by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Beim Schlafengehen", written 1911, first published 1911? [author's text checked 2 times 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 Ernst Beckert , "Beim Schlafengehen", 1948-9 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Rudolf Brömel (b. 1877), "Beim Schlafengehen", published 1945-8 [ voice and piano ], from Hermann Hesse Lieder, no. 17 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Werner Bühler (1904 - 1968), "Beim Schlafengehen" [ voice and piano ], from Lieder für Gesang und Klavier nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Czelinski (1901 - 1969), "Beim Schlafengehen", 1930 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Dietsch (1904 - 1971), "Beim Schlafengehen", published 1956 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Wege und Ziel - ein Zyklus von 5 Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Frank (b. 1901), "Beim Schlafengehen", op. 27b, published 1953 [ 2-part children's chorus or women's chorus and four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Julius Gessinger (1899 - 1986), "Beim Schlafengehen" [ four-part mixed chorus with instrumental ensemble ad libitum ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Julius Gessinger (1899 - 1986), "Abendlied", op. 51 (Vier Hesse-Lieder) no. 3 (1951) [ baritone and piano or string quartet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Gress (1893 - 1988), "Beim Schlafengehen", op. 85 no. 3, published 1950 [ voice, oboe, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Esther Gutknecht , "Beim Schlafengehen", 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walther Hecklinger , "Beim Schlafengehen", 1929 [ high voice, violin or oboe, and piano or organ ], from Hesse-Lieder, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinz-Otto Hoffmann (b. 1902), "Beim Schlafengehen", 1932-47 [ voice and piano ], from 21 Lieder, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Kracke (1910 - 1989), "Beim Schlafengehen", 1943 [ low male voice and piano ], from Musik des Einsamen, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Franz Krause (b. 1889), "Beim Schlafengehen", op. 46 no. 3, published 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Nicolaus Kreismann , "Beim Schlafengehen", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Wilhelm Lache , "Beim Schlafengehen ", 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Fritz Lubrich, Jr. (1888 - 1971), "Abend", op. 28 (1962) [ five-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Otto Maurer (1898 - 1959), "Beim Schlafengehen " [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Helene Maria Petersen-Vietor (1877 - ?), "Beim Schlafengehen", op. 14 no. 49, published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Von Gott kommt mir eine Freudenlicht - Fünfzig schlichte geistliche Lieder, no. 49 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Kuno Petsch (1923 - 1967), "Beim Schlafengehen", <<1948 [ chorus of three equal voices a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernst Reichert (1901 - 1958), "Beim Schlafengehen", published 1957 [ high voice and piano ], from Sechs Gesänge für hohe Stimme nach Texten von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinz Sälter , "Beim Schlafengehen ", op. 14 no. 1 (1949) [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Fünf Chorsätze und ein Kanon nach Worten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Theresia Schlechtriem (b. 1940), "Beim Schlafengehen ", published 1979 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Drei Chorlieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Beim Schlafengehen", op. 12 no. 11 [ medium voice and piano ], from Zwölf volkstümliche Gesänge für mittlere Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Walter Schulthess (1894 - 1971), "Beim Schlafengehen ", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4, published 1919 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Herbert Schultz (b. 1911), "Nun der Tag mich müd gemacht ", 1959 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ], from Im Zauberkreis der Nacht - Drei Männerchöre, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Klaus Sochatzy , "Beim Schlafengehen " [ voice and piano ], from Sechs ausgewählte Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alfred Stier (1880 - 1968), "Beim Schlafengehen ", 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Zwölf Gesänge nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Richard Georg Strauss (1864 - 1949), "Beim Schlafengehen", WoO. 150 no. 3 (1948), published 1950 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Vier letzte Lieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Bruno Stürmer (1892 - 1958), "Beim Schlafengehen ", published 1953 [ four-part men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Voelkner , "Beim Schlafengehen ", op. 27 no. 2, first performed 1932 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903 - 1969), "Beim Schlafengehen ", published 1970 [ baritone and piano ], from Hermann-Hesse-Lieder, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Fried Walter (1907 - 1996), "Beim Schlafengehen ", 1977 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Sechs Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Justus Hermann Wetzel (1879 - 1973), "Beim Schlafengehen ", op. 11 no. 3, published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Zweiter Liederkreis - 15 Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Reinhold Zimmermann , "Abendlied", 1950 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

Research team for this page: John Versmoren , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 57

While going to sleep

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Now that the day has made me so tired,
my dearest longings shall
be accepted kindly by the starry night
like a weary child.

Hands, cease your activity,
head, forget all of your thoughts;
all my senses now
will sink into slumber.

And my soul, unobserved,
will float about on untrammeled wings
in the enchanted circle of the night,
living a thousandfold more deeply.

Text Authorship:

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 64

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