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Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen Auf unsrer grünen Au. Sein Aug' ist wie der Himmel So heiter und so blau. Es weiß nicht viel zu reden Und Alles, was es spricht, Ist immer nur dasselbe, Ist nur: Vergißmeinnicht. Wenn ich zwei Äuglein sehe So heiter und so blau, So denk' ich an mein Blümchen Auf unsrer grünen Au. Da kann ich auch nicht reden Und nur mein Herze spricht, So bange nur, so leise, Und nur: Vergißmeinnicht.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Neunte Auflage, Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1887, pages 15-16.
Text Authorship:
- by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Vergißmeinnicht", written 1835, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in Kinderleben, in Kindheit [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 Bacon (1898 - 1990), "Vergißmeinnicht" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Baumgartner (1820 - 1867), "Das Vergißmeinnicht", op. 15 (Sechs kleine Lieder) no. 4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Behr (1837 - 1898), "Vergissmeinnicht", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 2, Langensalza, Schulbuchhandlung [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Berény (1871 - 1932), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 13 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Ries & Erler [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Reinhard Berger (1861 - 1911), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 51 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leo Blech (1871 - 1958), "Vergißmeinnicht", op. 28 no. 9, copyright © 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Neun Liedchen großen und kleinen Kindern vorzusingen, Sechste Folge, no. 9, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Claudius (1795 - 1877), "Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen", op. 23 (Drei Duette für zwei Sopranstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1850 [ vocal duet for 2 sopranos with piano ], Leipzig, Whistling [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 4 (Sechs Lieder: Aus der Kinderwelt) no. 6 (1847), published 1853 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Heinrich Esser (1818 - 1872), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 40 (4 Lieder) no. 2, published 1853 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christian Fink (1831 - 1911), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 3 (Fünf Lieder) no. 4, published 1857 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Fischer , "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 233 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1891 [ voice and piano ], Frankfurt a/O., Bratfisch [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Friedrich Johann Girschner (1794 - 1860), "Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen", op. 28 (Drei Duettinen für Mezzosopran (oder Tenor) und Alt mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 2, published 1840 [ vocal duet for mezzo-soprano (or tenor) and alto with piano ], Cöln, Eck. und Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Eduard Goltermann (1824 - 1898), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 77 (Vier Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1874 [ voice and piano ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Götze (1836 - 1887), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 182 (Sechs Lieder im Volkston für Sopran (oder Tenor) mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1886 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Bremen, Praeger & Meier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eduard August Grell (1800 - 1886), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 71 (18 Chorlieder für vier gemischte Stimme), Heft 3 no. 13, published 1885 [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Sulzer [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Hoffmann (1830 - 1870), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 16 (Vier Lieder für S., A., T. und B.) no. 4, published 1876 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], Offenbach, André [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Isenmann (1839 - 1889), "Vergiss mein nicht", op. 95 (Drei Lieder für 1 Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1888 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Fr. Luckhardt [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Wenzeslaus Kalliwoda (1801 - 1866), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 112 (Sechs Lieder für Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3 (1842/3) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emil Krause (1840 - 1916), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 33 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 3, published 1879 [ voice and piano ], Hamburg, Haring [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudolf Leberl (1884 - 1952), "Vergißmeinnicht", op. 24 (Acht Gitarrenlieder) no. 4, copyright © 1920, first performed 2006 [ voice and guitar ], Frankfurt am Main: Laurentius-Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Joseph) Joachim Raff (1822 - 1882), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 114 (Zwölf zweistimmige Gesänge) no. 8 (1860-4), published 1865 [ duet for 2 sopranos with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Karl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke (1824 - 1910), "Das Vergissmeinnicht", op. 63 (Neun Kinderlieder) no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georg Schumann (1866 - 1952), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 48 (Vier Lieder auf deutsch und englisch für Gesang und Klavier) no. 2, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernhard Schuster , "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 12 (Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Paez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julius Tausch (1827 - 1895), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 24 (Sechs Lieder für 1 mittlere Stimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 4, published 1891 [ medium voice and piano ], Düsseldorf, Bayrhoffer Nachf. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adalbert Ûberlée (1837 - 1897), "Vergißmeinnicht", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, published 1861 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Timm [sung text not yet checked]
- by Severin Warteresiewicz (1852 - 1923), "Vergissmeinnicht", op. 4 (Fünf Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1883 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Myosotis", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Melanie Trumbull
This text was added to the website: 2007-08-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 77
A lovely floweret is blooming Upon our green meadow. Its eye is as fair and as blue As the sky. It does not have much to say, And everything it speaks Is always ever the same, Is only: forget me not. When I see two little eyes So bright and so blue, Then I think of my floweret Upon our green meadow. Then I, too, cannot speak And only my heart speaks, So anxiously only, so softly, And only: forget me not.
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View text with all available footnotesTranslations of title(s):
"Das Vergißmeinnicht" = "The forget-me-not"
"Das Vergissmeinnicht" = "The forget-me-not"
"Es blüht ein schönes Blümchen" = "A lovely floweret is blooming"
"Vergißmeinnicht" = "Forget-me-not"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874), "Vergißmeinnicht", written 1835, appears in Lyrische Gedichte, in Kinderleben, in Kindheit
This text was added to the website: 2021-09-07
Line count: 16
Word count: 82