Was ist mir denn so wehe? (Eichendorff, set by Ernst Bacon, Alexander von Fielitz, Heinrich , Freiherr von Herzogenberg, Armin Knab, Rued Langgaard, Alphonse Maurice, Max Reger, Aribert Reimann) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Was ist mir denn so wehe?

Language: German (Deutsch)


Was ist mir denn so wehe?
  Es liegt ja wie im Traum
Der Grund schon, wo ich stehe,
  Die Wälder säuseln kaum
Noch von der dunklen Höhe.
  Es komme wie es will,
Was ist mir denn so wehe -
  Wie bald wird alles still.

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Confirmed with Joseph Freiherrn von Eichendorff's sämtliche poetische Werke, dritte Auflage, Erster Band, Gedichte, C. F. Amelang's Verlag, Leipzig, 1883.

Submitted by Emily Ezust

Authorship

by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), no title, appears in Gedichte, in 5. Totenopfer, in Auf meines Kindes Tod, no. 3 [ author's text verified 1 time]

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), "Was ist mir denn so wehe?", c1926-28, published 1928 [voice and piano], from Ten Songs by Ernst Bacon, no. 6. [ sung text not verified ]
by Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930), "Was ist mir denn so wehe?", op. 56 (Vier Eichendorff'sche Lieder für 1 mittlere Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1897 [voice and piano], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen Verlag [ sung text not verified ]
by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Wehmuth", op. 26 ([Acht] Lieder und Romanzen für vierstimmigen Frauenchor a capella, oder mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1879 [four-part women's chorus a cappella (or with piano)], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [ sung text not verified ]
by Armin Knab (1881 - 1951), "Was ist mir denn so wehe?", 1922 [alto or baritone and piano], from Eichendorff-Lieder [ sung text not verified ]
by Rued Langgaard (1893 - 1952), "Was ist mir denn so Wehe?", from Fünf Lieder, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]
by Alphonse Maurice (1856 - 1905), "Was ist mir denn so wehe", op. 36 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1895 [voice and piano], Bremen, Praeger & Meier [ sung text not verified ]
by Max Reger (1873 - 1916), "Traum", op. 15 (Zehn Lieder) no. 4 (1894). [medium voice, piano] [ sung text verified 1 time]
by Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Auf meines Kindes Tod", 1978 [baritone, piano], from Nachtstück II, no. 3. [ sung text not verified ]

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