Weiche Gräser im Revier

Weiche Gräser im Revier,
schöne, stille Plätzchen!
O, wie linde ruht es hier
sich mit einem Schätzchen!

Translation(s): CAT DUT ENG FIN FRE ITA

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Authorship

• by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

• a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, "Russian-Polish" dance song [text unavailable]
• Go to the text.

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), "Weiche Gräser im Revier", op. 65 no. 8 (1875), published 1875 [vocal quartet and piano four-hands or instrumental ensemble], from Neue Liebeslieder, no. 8, Berlin, Simrock [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , title 1: "Soft grass in my favorite haunts", copyright ©
• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , title 1: "Un campo di morbida erba", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Soft grass in my favorite haunts

 Soft grass in my favorite haunts,
 fair, quiet spots!
 O how pleasant it is to linger here
 with one's darling!

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• a text in German (Deutsch) by Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800 - 1875) CAT DUT FIN FRE GER ITA
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Johannes Brahms. Go to the text.

• a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, "Russian-Polish" dance song [text unavailable]
• Go to the text.

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.