by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
Weit in nebelgrauer Ferne
Language: German (Deutsch)
Weit in nebelgrauer Ferne Liegt mir das vergang'ne Glück, Nur an Einem schönen Sterne [Weilt mit]1 Liebe noch [der]2 Blick, Aber [wie des Sternes]3 Pracht [Ist es nur ein]4 Schein der Nacht. Deckte dir der lange Schlummer, Dir der Tod die Augen zu, Dich besäße [doch]5 mein Kummer, Meinem Herzen lebtest du. Aber ach! du lebst im Licht, Meiner Liebe lebst du nicht. Kann der Liebe süß Verlangen, Emma, kann's [vergänglich]6 seyn? Was dahin ist und vergangen, Emma, kann's die Liebe seyn? [Ihrer Flamme Himmelsglut, Stirbt sie, wie ein irdisch Gut?]7
E. Wolf Ferrari sets stanzas 1-2
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Gedichte von Friederich Schiller, Erster Theil, Leipzig, 1800, bey Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, page 300, and with Musen-Almanach für das Jahr 1798, herausgegeben von Schiller. Tübingen, in der J.G.Cottaischen Buchhandlung, pages 115-116.
1 Reinthaler: "Hängt mit", Wolf Ferrari: "Weilt voll"2 Krufft: "mein"
3 Reinthaler: "ach des Sternes"; Wolf Ferrari: "wie der Sternen"
4 Reinthaler: "Ist es nur wie"; Wolf Ferrari: "Bleibt es nur ein"
5 Wolf Ferrari: "noch"
6 Reinthaler: "die Liebe"
7 First edition (Schiller's Musen-Almanach), and Krufft: "Ob der Liebe Lust auch flieht,/ Ihre Pein doch nie verglüht."
Text Authorship:
- by Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805), "An Emma", written 1796, first published 1797 [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 Gottfried Grunewald (b. 1859), "An Emma", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], Weimar, Kühn [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Harder (1775 - 1813), "An Emma", op. 1 (Gesänge für die Guitarre) no. 9 [ voice and guitar ], Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Karl) Emil Kauffmann (1836 - 1909), "An Emma", op. 17 (Zehn Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 10, published 1884 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Tübingen, Laupp [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johann Christoph Kienlen (1783 - 1829), "An Emma", published 1810 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Yrjö Henrik Kilpinen (1892 - 1959), "An Emma", op. 2 (Lauluja Nikolaus Lenaun ja Friedrich von Schillerin runoihin) no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by C. Klage , "An Emma", published 1831 [ voice and guitar ], Berlin, Kraft [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolaus, Freiherr von Krufft (1779 - 1818), "An Emma" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Xaver Mozart (1791 - 1844), "An Emma", op. 24 (1820) [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Netzer (1808 - 1864), "An Emma", op. 5, published 1844 [ voice, piano, cello or Waldhorn ], Berlin, Bote und Bock; confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Fürst (1775 - 1833), "An Emma " [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benedikt Randhartinger (1802 - 1893), "An Emma", op. 14 (Drei Gedichte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Wien: Diabelli & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Martin Reinthaler (1822 - 1896), "Weit in nebelgrauer Ferne", op. 10 (Sechs Lieder) no. 2, published c1860 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johann Rufinatscha (1812 - 1893), "An Emma" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "An Emma", op. 58 (Drei Lieder) no. 2, D 113 (1814), published 1821 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ferdinand Sieber (1822 - 1895), "An Emma ", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder für Alt oder Bass) no. 4, published 1844 [ alto or bass and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josef Staudigl (1807 - 1861), "An Emma", op. 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Johann Xaver Sterkel (1750 - 1817), "An Emma", op. 11 (Sechs Gesänge mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte) no. 6 [ voice and piano ], Bonn, Nikolaus Simrock [sung text not yet checked]
- by Felix Paul Weingartner (1863 - 1942), "Emma ", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], from Drei Lieder für 1 tiefere Singst und Pianoforte, no. 3, Mannheim, Heckel [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Heinrich von Weyrauch (1788 - 1865), "An Emma" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ermanno Wolf Ferrari (1876 - 1948), "Widmung", stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Yur'yevich Lermontov (1814 - 1841) , "К Нине" ; composed by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "Aan Emma", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "To Emma", copyright ©
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À Emma", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "Ad Emma", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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