As the moon with splendor pierces (Lazarus) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget

Language: German (Deutsch)


Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget
Durch den dunkeln Wolkenflor,
Also taucht aus dunkeln Zeiten
Mir ein lichtes Bild hervor.

Saßen all auf dem Verdecke,
Fuhren stolz hinab den Rhein,
Und die sommergrünen Ufer
Glühn im Abendsonnenschein.

Sinnend saß ich zu den Füßen
Einer Dame, schön und hold;
In ihr liebes bleiches Antlitz
Spielt' das rote Sonnengold.

Lauten klangen, Buben sangen,
Wunderbare Fröhlichkeit!
Und der Himmel wurde blauer,
Und die Seele wurde weit.

Märchenhaft vorüberzogen
Berg und Burgen, Wald und Au; -
Und das alles sah ich glänzen
In dem Aug der schönen Frau.

Translation(s): CZE ENG FRE ITA

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Authorship

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), no title, appears in Buch der Lieder, in Die Heimkehr, no. 40, first published 1823-4 [ 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)

by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", originally intended for op. 96 - lost or destroyed according to McCorkle's "Johannes Brahms: Thematisch-bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis", 1984 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Carl Debrois van Bruyck (1828 - 1902), "Rheinfahrt", op. 15 (Drei Gesänge) no. 1. [mezzo-soprano and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Hans Dütschke (1848 - 1928), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", op. 3 (Lieder) no. 5, published 1879 [voice and piano], Hamburg, Hentze [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850 - 1900), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", H. 227 no. 4 (1876), from Neue Lieder, no. 4, also set in Czech (Čeština) [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Christian Friedrich Grimmer (1798 - 1850), "Die Rheinfahrt", op. 5 (Acht Lieder von Heinrich Heine) no. 8, published 1831. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Eduard (Edward) Franz Carl Hubert Hartenfels (1810 - 1898), "Die Rheinfahrt" [voice and piano or guitar], from Zwölf Lieder von Goethe, Herder, Uhland, Chamisso, Heine, Brentano etc., no. 10. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Friedrich Hinrichs (1820 - 1892), "Die Rheinfahrt", op. 4 (Sechs Gedichte von Heinrich Heine) no. 2. [soprano or tenor and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by C. E. (Charles Edward) Horn (1786 - 1849), "Die Rheinfahrt", from Lieder, no. 2 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Jindrich z Albestu Kaan (1852 - 1926), "Lied von Heine" [voice and harmonium] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Jindrich z Albestu Kaan (1852 - 1926), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", op. 6 (Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte), Heft 2 no. 7, published 1886 [voice and piano], Prag, Urbánek [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", 1994-5, published c1998 [tenor and piano], from Ein Liederbuch nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine, Abteilung IV, no. 2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Friedrich August Naubert (1839 - 1897), "Die Rheinfahrt", op. 22 no. 8, published 1878 [medium voice and piano], from Buch der Lieder. Zwölf Gedichte von Heine, no. 8, Leipzig, Leuckart [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Elimar, Herzog von Oldenburg , "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", from Kompositionen, no. 7. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Ludwig Rottenberg (1864 - 1932), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend", published 1914, from Zwölf Lieder von Heinrich Heine, no. 3. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by C. von Sidorovich , "Die Rheinfahrt", from Fünf Lieder von Heine, no. 4. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Korstiaan Stougie (1908 - 1988), "Wie der Mond", op. 1 no. 109 (1948), published 1972, from Elf Heine-liederen, no. 7. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Die Rheinfahrt", published 1851, from Die Heimkehr : 88 Gedichte aus H. Heine's Reisebildern, no. 40. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Johann Vesque von Püttlingen (1803 - 1883), "Wie der Mond sich leuchtend dränget", op. 27. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Gotthard Wöhler , "Die Rheinfahrt", op. 10 (Vier Romanzen von Eichendorff und Heine) no. 4. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG FRE ITA by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich.

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

ENG English (Emma Lazarus) , appears in Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine, first published 1881
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Comme l'éclat de la lune qui se glisse", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Giovanni Neri) , "Come la luna sbuca con il suo splendore", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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