Wann der silberne Mond durch die...

[Wann]1 der silberne Mond durch die Gesträuche [blinkt]2,
Und sein schlummerndes Licht über den Rasen [streut]3,
  Und die Nachtigall flötet,
    Wandl' ich traurig von Busch zu Busch.

Selig preis' ich dich dann, flötende Nachtigall,
Weil dein Weibchen mit dir wohnet in Einem Nest,
  Ihrem singenden Gatten
    Tausend trauliche Küsse giebt.

[Ueberhüllet]4 von Laub, girret ein Taubenpaar
Sein Entzücken mir vor; aber ich wende mich,
  Suche [dunklere Schatten]5,
    Und die einsame Thräne rinnt.

Wann, o lächelndes Bild, welches wie Morgenroth
Durch die Seele mir stralt, find' ich auf Erden dich?
  Und die einsame Thräne
    Bebt mir heisser die Wang' herab.

Translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FRE HEB ITA ITA SPA

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Confirmed with Gedichte von Ludewig Heinrich Christoph Hölty. Besorgt durch seine Freunde Friederich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg und Johann Heinrich Voß. Hamburg, bei Carl Ernst Bohn. 1783, page 167; with Poetische Blumenlese Auf das Jahr 1775. Göttingen und Gotha bey Johann Christian Dieterich, pages 210-211; and with Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty's Sämtliche Werke kritisch und chronologisch herausgegeben von Wilhelm Michael, Erster Band, Weimar, Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1914, page 159.

Authorship

• by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Die Mainacht", written 1774, first published 1775 [ author's text checked 2 times]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Max Joseph Beer (1851 - 1908), "Die Mainacht", op. 1 (Zwei Lieder und Gesänge mit Pianoforte) no. a, published 1874, Wien: V. Kratochwill; Leipzig: R. Forberg [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Die Mainacht", op. 43 (Vier Gesänge) no. 2, published 1869, stanzas 1,3-4 [voice and piano], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Julius Janssen , "Die Mainacht", published 1879 [voice and piano], from Fünf Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 4, Kassel, Voigt [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Die Mainacht", op. posth. 9 (Sechs Lieder) no. 6, published 1850, stanzas 1-3 [voice and piano], Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wilhelm Rintel (1818 - 1899), "Die Mainacht", published 1858 [vocal quartet for female voices], from Drei Lieder für vier Frauenstimmen, no. 3, Berlin, Bahn [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Heinrich Schnell (? - 1884), "Wann der silberne Mond", op. 6 (Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 2, published 1880 [voice and piano], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Die Mainacht", D. 194 (1815), published 1894. [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Thekla Schulz , "Die Mainacht", published 1879 [voice and piano], from Drei Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Bremen, Praeger & Meier [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De meinacht", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Leonard Lehrman) , no title, copyright © 1996, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• HEB Hebrew (עברית) (Max Mader) (Tsippora Samberg) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Notte di maggio", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Amelia Maria Imbarrato) , "La notte di maggio", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Alvaro De la Cruz) , "La noche de mayo", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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La noche de mayo

Cuando la luna plateada  brilla brilla entre los arbustos
Y sobre el cesped se dispersa su luz brillante,
Y el ruiseñor canta,
Camino tristemente por los bosques.

Creo que estás feliz, ruiseñor cantante,
Por que tu esposa vive en un nido contigo,
Dando a su esposo cantando
Mil besos fieles

Envuelto por follaje, una pareja de palomas
Arrullan su  encanto hacia mi;
Pero yo me voy buscando sombras mas oscuras,
Y una lágrima solitaria fluye.

Cuando, o imagen sonriente que como el alba
Brilla a través de mi alma, ¿debo yo encontrarte en la tierra?
Y dejar que la lagrima fluya tomblorosa,
Quemandose, bajo mi mejilla.

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748 - 1776), "Die Mainacht", written 1774, first published 1775 CAT DUT ENG FRE HEB ITA ITA
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Max Joseph Beer, Johannes Brahms, Julius Janssen, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Wilhelm Rintel, Heinrich Schnell, Franz Peter Schubert, Thekla Schulz. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2005-10-12.
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