Madame Nightingale | Madame Nightingale, little forest bird

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by Otto Roquette (1824 - 1896)

Translation © by Sharon Krebs

Frau Nachtigall

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Frau Nachtigall, kleins Waldvöglein,
Flieg [durch den]¹ Sonnenstrahl,
Und sing recht in die Welt hinein
Ein Lied vom Schwarzathal!
Und grüßen sollst du von mir schön
Gar manches liebe Herz,
Und denken soll's an jene Höh'n,
An Wanderlust und Scherz.

Frau Nachtigall, nun flieg hinaus
Und gelt, verstehst mich schon,
Richt [gar]³ den Gruß recht lustig aus,
So recht im Wanderton!
Die Zeit ist hin, der Duft entfloh,
Der bunte Strauß ist fahl,
Im Herzen aber klinget froh
Das Lied vom Schwarzathal.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Abt

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Confirmed with Otto Roquette, Liederbuch, Stuttgart und Tübingen: J.G. Cotta’scher Verlag, 1852, pages 88-89

¹ Abt: "hoch zum"
² Abt: "ja"

Text Authorship:

by Otto Roquette (1824 - 1896), "Frau Nachtigall", appears in Liederbuch, in Lieder vom Schwarzathal, no. 1 [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 Franz Wilhelm Abt (1819 - 1885), "Frau Nachtigall", op. 473 no. 4 [ duet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ludwig Gellert (1827 - 1913), "Frau Nachtigall", op. 4 no. 3 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffmann (1820 - 1900), "Frau Nachtigall", op. 48 (Sechs Lieder im Volkston für eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 5, published 1864 [ voice and piano ], Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Madame Nightingale", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-02-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 84

Madame Nightingale

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Madame Nightingale, little forest bird,
Fly [through]¹ the sunbeam
And sing wholeheartedly into the world
A song of the Schwarza-valley!
And nicely you are to give greetings from me
To many a dear heart,
And it should think of those heights,
Of the joy of wandering and of jesting.

Madame Nightingale, now fly out
And sure, you understand me already,
Deliver the greeting quite merrily,
Quite in the tone of wandering!
The time has passed, the scent has vanished,
The colourful bouquet is pallid,
But in my heart rings joyfully on
The song of the Schwarza-valley.

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¹ Abt: "up to"

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Otto Roquette (1824 - 1896), "Frau Nachtigall", appears in Liederbuch, in Lieder vom Schwarzathal, no. 1
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This text was added to the website: 2017-12-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 97