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Läuten kaum die Maienglocken, Leise durch den lauen Wind, Hebt ein Knabe froh erschrocken, Aus dem Grase sich geschwind. Schüttelt in den Blütenflocken, Seine feinen blonden Locken, Schelmisch sinnend wie ein Kind. Und nun wehen Lerchenlieder Und es schlägt die Nachtigall, Von den Bergen rauschend wieder Kommt der kühle Wasserfall. Rings im Walde bunt Gefieder, Frühling, Frühling ist es wieder Und ein Jauchzen überall. Und den Knaben hört man schwirren, Goldne Fäden, zart und lind, Durch die Lüfte künstlich wirren, Und ein süsser Krieg beginnt. Suchen, fliehen, schmachtend irren, Bis sich Alle hold verwirren. O besel'gend Labyrinth!
R. Franz sets stanzas 1-2
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Text Authorship:
- by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Der Schalk", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe [author's text checked 1 time 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 Otto Dorn (1848 - 1931), "Maienglocken", published 1879 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 15, Berlin, Weinholtz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Otto Dresel (1826 - 1890), "Der Schalk", 1846, published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Frank (1847 - 1889), "Der Schalk", op. 1 (Zehn Lieder) no. 8, published 1871 [ voice and piano ], Wien, Gotthard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Franz (1815 - 1892), "Der Schalk", op. 3 (Sechs Gesänge) no. 1, published 1844, stanzas 1-2 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Maienlied", op. 1 (Sechs Lieder) no. 4 (>>1840), published 1846 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Carl Adolf Lorenz, Dr. (1837 - 1923), "Der Schalk ", op. 15 (Zwei Terzette für drei Frauenstimmen (Solo oder Chor) mit Begleitung des Pianoforte) no. 1, published 1873 [ vocal trio for female voices (or three-part women's chorus) with piano ], Berlin, Trautwein [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861), "Der Schalk", op. 157 (Vier Duettinen für Sopran und Alt mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1852 [ vocal duet for soprano and alto with piano ], Leipzig, Hofmeister [sung text not yet checked]
- by August Reuss (1871 - 1935), "Der Schalk", op. 32 (Vier Terzette) no. 4 [ women's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich von Sahr (1821 - 1874), "Der Schalk", op. 15 (Sechs Lieder für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor) no. 3, published 1886 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], Leipzig, Senff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig Wilhelm Andreas Maria Thuille (1861 - 1907), "Der Schalk", op. 31 no. 1 (1904) [ vocal trio for 2 sopranos and mezzo-soprano with piano ], from Drei Lieder für drei Frauenstimmen solo nach Gedichten von Joseph von Eichendorff, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by J. H. W. Werner , "Der Schalk", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 6, Krefeld, Schuckert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Heinrich Zöllner (1854 - 1941), "Der Schalk ", op. 47, published 1890 [ men's chorus ], Leipzig, Siegel [sung text not yet checked]
Set in a modified version by Carl Georg Peter Grädener, Julius Stern, Julius Weismann.
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 97
Hardly do the lilies-of-the-valley ring faintly in the gentle wind, than a boy starts gaily and quickly from the grass. In the blossoms he shakes his fine blond locks, with roguish feeling, like a child. And now the lark songs can be heard, and the nightingale sings; from the mountains roars again the sound of the cool waterfall. Around the forest are bright feathers; It is Spring again and there is rejoicing everywhere. And one hears the boy twanging; golden threads, delicate and gentle, stir the air in a synthetic commotion, and a sweet war begins. There is searching, fleeing, languishing yearning, until everything tangles itself sweetly. O blissful labyrinth!
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Translations of titles:"Maienlied" = "May Song"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788 - 1857), "Der Schalk", appears in Gedichte, in 4. Frühling und Liebe
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 110