LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,133)
  • Text Authors (19,544)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Emanuel Schikaneder (1751 - 1812)

Laßt uns mit geschlung'nen Händen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Laßt uns mit geschlung'nen Händen
Brüder, diese Arbeit enden
unter frohem Jubelschall.
Es umschlinge diese Kette,
so wie diese heil'ge Stätte,
auch den ganzen Erdenball.

Laßt uns unter frohem Singen
vollen Dank dem Schöpfer bringen,
dessen Allmacht uns erfreut.
Seht, die Weihe ist vollendet;
wär' doch auch das Werk geendet,
welches uns're Herzen weiht!

Tugend tut die Menschheit ehren;
sich und andern Liebe lehren
sei nun stets die erste Pflicht.
Dann strömt Licht allein in Osten,
dann strömt Licht allein in Westen,
auch in Süd und Norden Licht.

Text Authorship:

  • by Emanuel Schikaneder (1751 - 1812) [author's text not yet checked 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):

  • misattributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) and by Johann Holzer (1753 - 1818), "Laßt uns mit geschlung'nen Händen", K. 623a, published 1792 [ men's chorus and organ ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Bruno Bianco

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 88

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris